Things well fitted abide.
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.
Put out as much as you can. It doesn't do anything sitting on a shelf.
Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.