Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

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

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.