It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

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

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.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

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

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and ethical behavior." They often formulate necessities as objectives; for example, "to achieve sufficient profit." This is like a person saying his mission is to breathe sufficiently.