The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson
A wise man doesn’t make all mistakes himself. He gives others a chance too.
Winston Churchhill
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford
One should never be so busy as to have no time left for contemplation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Rather decide almost right than exactly wrong.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
There are more people who surrender, than those who fail.
Henry Ford
The slowest person, who dosen’t lose sight of his goal, will still be faster as the one straying around with no aim.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford
