Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

As a final incentive before giving up a

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.