Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

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

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

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.