The disciplined are free.
The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine.
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
You are a constant. Forever in my mind; forever in my heart. It seems that most matter how much I try I can’t get rid of you. You are a thorn, stuck in deep; painful to remove, and even when I do, still I’ll bleed and feel the soreness. It will take time, but it will heal. No matter the pain, I will still dare to pick roses.
What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Be an opener of doors.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
