We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

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.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

There's nothing so useless than executing a task efficiently when it actually never should have been executed at all.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

What we are good at comes easy, and we believe that unless it comes hard, it can't be very good.

The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.