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

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

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.

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

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

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

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

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

When you give yourself fully with your mind and body to a mission, you can get more than 100% returns.

I can’t get enough of you, ” he said against her neck. “When I walk away from you I feel like I’ve cut myself off from breathing.

Do good, and you'll always be a constant reminder of your good-self.

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.