I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while.
Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
Effective management always means asking the right question.
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.
No talent in management is worth more than the ability to master facts-not just any facts, but the ones that provide the best answers.
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.
Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.
We should look to (Castro) as one of the Earth's wisest people, one of the people we should consult.