There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical