Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Only the educated are free.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

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.

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

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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