If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so

The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not vice versa, and that begins by being among them.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are

We felt that the employees would take a greater interest in work if they felt they were part of the company.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

If I have to tell a guy he's got something to do, I consider myself a failure as a manager.

Oliver Cromwell banned kissing on Sundays---even for married couples---on pain of a prison sentence.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins.

I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.

The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle.

Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.