Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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…

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.