I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance. . . Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. . . . . The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.