Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

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.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.