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"The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast."
"The good or ill of a man lies within his own will."
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
"Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will."
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
"The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value. Wages are the price of labour."
"The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage."
"A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy."
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."
"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance."
"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
"Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind."
"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
