Power is the difference between the number of people I am obliged to consult and the number who are obliged to consult me.
Jul 042022
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.
Nearly every new law is bad, and nearly every old custom is good.
A time-honored tactic of the schoolyard bully, after he has ground your face into the dirt, is to release you on the condition that you mouth some humiliating absurdity. He does not want to convince you of its truth; he wants to see what you will swallow.
Don’t follow the money — there’s too much of it around. Follow the status. Of that there can never be enough.
You can star in the movie of your life, or live it.
Learn languages, to stop thinking in words.
Do not be the sort of person who, if he did not exist, would have to be invented.
So many china shops, so few bulls.