When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.