Even the materials and chemicals and pharmaceutical industries have gone high-fashion— with a rash of 'products' spewing forth, each aimed at customers' ever-shifting, ever-narrower-gauge needs.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing layout, processes, and procedures.

Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team. . . at the same time.

The 'driven' believe the impossible is possible, and are determined to prove it.

Life is winging it. To suggest otherwise is delusional.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

I don’t believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.