My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to