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

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

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