Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.