The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
To keep an organization young and fit, don't hire anyone until everybody's so overworked they'll be glad to see the newcomer no matter where he sits.
It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.
It's been my experience that the people who gain trust, loyalty, excitement, and energy fast are the ones who pass on the credit to the people who have really done the work. A leader doesnt need any credit. . . He's getting more credit than he deserves anyway.
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.
When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.
My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.