Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.