Everyone believes in natural ability, except the naturally able.
Just about every motive for human action sounds better than making money, and turns out worse.
A salesman, unlike a psychology professor, must understand psychology.
Anyone can look up anything; only what you know is truly at your disposal.
We are all usufructs now.
Public acknowledgement of error is almost entirely for show. It has no point unless you reexamine the habits of thought that produced the error, which is best done in private.
We are apt to forget, though history at intervals reminds us, how far hypocrisy is to be preferred to sincere, unaffected villainy.
Power is the difference between the number of people I am obliged to consult and the number who are obliged to consult me.
With ideas, you get what you want, not what you need.
One good idea can spawn countless bad ones.