A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong -- that's healthy.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect... You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
A man is known by the company he organizes.
An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.