Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

"Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

The superfluous is very necessary.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are good at heart.

Knowledge is power.

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

When properly administered, vacations do not diminish productivity: for every week you're away and get nothing done, there's another when your boss is away and you get twice as much done.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

XXVI: If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance. XXVII: Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. XXVIII: It is better to be the r

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

It's always darkest just before the lights go out.

I: The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money. II: If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. III: There are

I BET WHAT HAPPENED was they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then that night, they burned the wheel.

"MOKE DAT YIGARETTE"

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back the when it begins to rain.

Never take a resume seriously. Resumes only make money for the people who write the resumes. No resume ever tells an employer how many times a job applicant has had the clap. Why, indeed, would anyone hire a person based on a resume written by a

I will make you shorter by the head.

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped.

'Naomi, sex at noon taxes.' I moan. Never odd or even. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. Madam, I'm Adam. Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Sit on Otis.

There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.