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.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.