Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun.

The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.

Errors of omission, lost opportunities, are generally more critical than errors of commission. Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.