It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission