Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Ideas are useless unless used.

Customers buy 1/4 holes, not 1/4 bits.

All organizations are hierarchical. At each level people serve under those above them. An organization is therefore a structured institution. If it is not structured, it is a mob. Mobs do not get things done, they destroy things.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging