I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise — bureaucrats.
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.