An obsession with control generally seems to reflect a fear of uncertainty.

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.

If you look deep inside trust, you'll find truth.

I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.