The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.