Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.

I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.