A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.
Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte. . . ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
That's important, I think, for people who come here to realize that we are here for only a time and we have an obligation of service and we need to keep things in perspective.
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.