Poems List

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Five daily newspapers arrive in my California driveway. The New York times and the Wall Street Journal are supplemented by three local papers. As for magazines, I read, or at least skim, Business Week, Forbes, The Economist, INC; Industry Week, Fortune. Other subscriptions include Sales and Marketing Management, Modern Health Care, Progressive Grocer, High Tech Business, and Slaon Management Review from MIT. I religiously read Business Tokyo, Asia Week, and Far Eastern Economic Review. I glance at Newsweek and Time ... but I devour the New Republic, Policy Review, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, and Public Interest. How about books? A dozen or more each month.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Good managers have a bias for action.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I grew up in the Chicago suburbs. I've always loved to write, and eventually found that television best fits my strengths. So beyond that, I suppose what inspired me was the idea of being able to work with a group of people week after week to craft entertaining stories.

Who is your all time favorite television character and why? "Scrooge McDuck. A greedy, caustic duck who does what he wants and doesn't listen to anyone, followed around by three young nephews who are always getting into trouble? Clearly, the inspiration for House MD. Also, the guy freaking swam in money. Literally.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.