The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market