The hardeststep is over the threshold.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

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

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.