With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Move fast with stable infrastructure.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

The power and energy sectors are the biggest constituents of the infrastructure sector. If you ignore them, no development will happen.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I have a company, and I’ve got to think about that. I’m trying to do my best there, and that’s a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I’ve always been one to save everything – I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

The march of the human mind is slow.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

He that rises late must trot all day.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.