Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.