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

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.