Your mind... can quickly retain lots of detailed information—if it’s stored in the right way.

The most important thing is to take action and start pursuing your ideas. Even if you encounter setbacks or failures, the experience will help you learn and grow as an inventor and entrepreneur.

These surveys, and the careful analysis done on them, provide some of the best justification around for practices that can significantly improve most IT organizations.

Empowerment can’t be installed; it has to be grown. It’s a matter of nurturing the conditions that create it.

Software delivery is an exercise in continuous improvement, and our research shows that year over year the best keep getting better, and those who fail to improve fall further and further behind.

You want the truth, not a gold star. Some of the most informative (and thus best) responses you can get are along the lines of, “Umm, I’m not so sure about that” and "That's pretty neat." Both are lukewarm responses which tell you they don’t care.

Think of the flow of inspiration to create like a river. The river always flows until man puts something there to block it, like a dam.

The Thought Of Death Lets You Focus On What’s Important

Essentialists see trade-offs as an inherent part of life, not as an inherently negative part of life.

Numbers run businesses. They tel you how you can make the most money in the least time and with the least ef fort—which is, or should be, the goal of every entrepreneur.