For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.

When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.

If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.