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.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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