You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.