The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho