Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Let everyone else call your idea crazy . . . just keep going. Don't stop.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Lose money for the firm, and I will be understanding; lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.