"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

"'Management' means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . ."

"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"The computer is a moron."

"Far too many people鈥攅specially people with great expertise in one area鈥攁re contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge."

"Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it."

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."

"Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor."

"Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details."

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."

"We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece."