A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

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.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Well done is better than well said.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.