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The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Brainy's the new sexy.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

So little done, so much to do.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.

Details create the big picture.

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.