They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

— The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like to do a lot of listening, that way I pick up a lot of good ideas—many from subordinates. When you listen, you know twice as much as the other guy: what he knows and what you know.

– Gen. Hal Moore, On Leadership

You have to learn to love the problem, not the solution. That’s how you stay engaged when things take longer than expected.

— Marc Randolph, That Will Never Work