A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.