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The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

Organization structure should make self-control possible and should encourage self-motivation.

…an alliance may be the way to achieve genuine synergy between separate and independent companies.

…do not try to change yourself; it is unlikely to be successful. But work, and hard, to improve the way you perform. And try not to do work of any kind in a way in which you do not perform or perform poorly.

Results should be hard to achieve. They should require ‘stretching’… But they should be within reach.

Many people associate procrastination with laziness. But psychologists find that procrastination is not a time management problem – it’s an emotion management problem.

Although listening is often more fun, reading improves comprehension and recall. Whereas listening promotes intuitive thinking, reading activates more analytical processing.

When we’re encouraged to make mistakes, we end up making fewer of them. Early mistakes help us remember the correct answer – and motivate us to keep learning.

Improving depends not on the quality of information you seek out, but the quality of the information you take in. Growth is less about how hard you work than how well you learn.

Cognitive skills that amplify our ability to take in and understand information lay the groundwork for becoming a sponge. As we become more spongelike, we become better equipped to achieve greater things.