Business

You can’t get caught up in worrying about whether everyone you work with likes you. Ultimately you want the respect of your coworkers, but you don’t need them to be your buddies.

The complete Apollo team...Directly involves slightly over 400,000 people...Included are some if the country's foremost scientists and engineers. This mobilization of men and resources is unprecedented in history since WWII.

I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution.

Small budgets require brave ideas.

The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.

We designed a car that is for daily commutes and that you charge every day. The less you use the gasoline engine, the better mpg. Essentially, the Karma can achieve dramatic savings and low CO2 output when used as intended, as a daily commuter.

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

Forget UNIX - it will be gone in 5 years.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. Produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. And another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

Hard work is what you do to make ends meet, easy work is getting others to do the hard work for you.

A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage.

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

You have to modernise you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.