Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.