As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how".

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.

First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses.

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say health care; that's an intention, not an objective.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.