We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
It is customary... to offer a grain of comfort, in the form of a statement that some peculiarly human characteristic could never be imitated by a machine. ... I cannot offer any such comfort, for I believe that no such bounds can be set.
Men are at variance with the one thing with which they are in the most unbroken communion, the reason that administers the whole universe.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.