Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Habit: the shackles of the free