What gets measured gets managed.
- PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
- WILLIAM OF OCCAM (1300-1350), originator of "Occam's Razor"

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
- ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY, pioneer of international postal flight and author of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince)

One does not accumulate but eliminate.  It is not daily increase buy daily decrease.  The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- BRUCE LEE

Life is too short to be small.
- BENJAMIN DISRAELI

... my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner...
- E.E. CUMMINGS, Collected Poems

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
- ALDOUS HUXLEY

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- JEAN GIRAUDOUX (1882-1994)

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
- VIKTOR FRANKL, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy, Man's Search for Meaning

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists