Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

If you watch your pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.