You can't cut your way to growth. Real progress comes from investment and vision.

I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.

I have always considered that the true test of a machine is its practical utility in the hands of the common laborer.