“I’ll take 50% efficiency to get 100% loyalty.”

–Samuel Goldwyn

“He has struck a blow for something exceedingly rare: simple, willful righteousness.”

–Charles Krauthammer

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”

-Jack Welch

“I was once a standing-desk skeptic, too. But, after I made the switch four days ago, I could immediately sense a difference in how I felt: way more self-righteous.”

–Tom O’Donnell, The New Yorker

“How do you want to be remembered?” he is asked.

My grandfather laughs. “I don’t want to be remembered,” he says.  “I want to stick around for a while longer.”

–A. J. Jacobs

“Silence is a fence which preserves wisdom.”

–Pirkei Avot

“When they call you crazy,” said Bezos, “you know you have a good idea.”

“Right” said Dean. “If they say, ‘Hmmm, good idea,’ it’s probably too ordinary.”

–Conversation between Dean Kamen and Jeff Bezos as documented by Steve Kemper in Reinventing the Wheel

“You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”

–Jack Welch

“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”

–Herb Kelleher

“Either your children were the center of your life, or they were not.  Everything else was commentary.”

–The philosophy of Alice Trillin as discussed by Calvin Trillin in The New Yorker