Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.