When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast.

Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.