"...it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up. You’ve got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place." - Clayton M. Christensen (via James Siminoff)

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx

"A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking." - E. Digby Baltzell (1955)

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” – Obi-wan Kenobi, taunting Darh Vader

"If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative." - Scott Boras

"Just got the new iPad. This amazing device has already revolutionized the way I use a calculator." - Conan O'Brien

"Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happen. Listen to them. Make them happy. But they won’t create the future road-map for your product or service. That’s your job." - Mark Cuban

"Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things." - Peter Drucker

"Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap." - Ira Glass