Abbas Mouffok

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― Jim Collins, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline.
Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”
― Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work”
― Jeffrey K. Liker, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.”
― Gerber Michael E., The E-myth Revisited