Wonder how true this is these days… “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
he said something like it, it was a translation of a translation of a translation of a paraphrase something he actually said which was actually a lot more interesting (not unlike einstein's "simple as possible but no simpler", come to think of it)