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

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

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

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.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.