Enormous thanks for your inspiration, to everyone quoted on these pages

Perception is the reality.

Fail to prepare and prepare to fail.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts, but that power is a magnet for the corruptible.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them into intelligent subjects.

Dialectics: The art of investigating the truth of opinions, testing the truth by discussion and logical disputation. - As a dialectician one is in possession of a pitiless instrument. With its aid one can play the tyrant. The dialectician leaves it to his opponent to demonstrate he is not an idiot. He enrages, he at the same time makes helpless. The dialectician devitalises his opponents intellect.

Never put passion before principles; even if you win you have lost.

It is always what you are not doing that will make the difference.

If you always do what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got.

At no time while I am helping you with any problem will your problem become my problem. The instant your problem becomes mine, you will no longer have a problem. I cannot help someone who doesn't have a problem.

Do not grieve for the impossible.

If I now find that I have become something I did not believe I was, how can I be sure that if I change my behaviour I will become that which I wish to be?

Work expands and contracts with the amount of time allowed for it.

To put others off: their game ask them what they are doing differently that has drastically improved their performance.

Loser trap: impact of change on performance against projected improvements.

Timetables: reduce the need to constantly prioritise.

Principle of delayed gratification: doing least liked tasks first.

The truth will set you free.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Always tell the truth and you never have to remember what you said.

Volume is vanity, profit is sanity.

Without compromise the search for perfection may lead nowhere.

Culture is a pattern of basic assumptions, invented, discovered or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, assumptions which work well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, feel, think and act in relation to those problems.

The longest journey begins with a single footstep.

80/20 commitment, so presumably each 1% increase in commitment generates an increased 4% return.

What can I do to make profit today? What can I do to make profit tomorrow?

What would I do if it was my own business?