Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

None are so busy as the fool and the knave.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.