quotes

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living;
there is nothing harder to learn.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems.
And that's a big mistake.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.

There is more in life than increasing its speed.

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of judgment.

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Companies go out of business when they make the wrong decisions or, just as important, make too many decisions.
The latter creates complexity.

Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness...
Thus the yeoman work in any science... is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that i can borrow.

Genius is only a superior way of seeing.

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few.
The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Nobody can give you freedom.
Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.
If you're a man, you take it.

Do your thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

One does not accumulate but eliminate.
It is not daily increase but daily decrease.
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.