“Then [the Clark Brothers] woke up and saw for the first time that my mind had not been idle while they were talking so big and loud.”— John D. Rockefeller, amazon.com
“The problem with the Silicon Vally is that we tend to confuse a clear view with a short distance.”— Paul B. Carroll, amazon.com
“A great communicator has faith that there's a reserve of goodwill in most relationships, even if it's temporarily absent.”— Phil Stutz, amazon.com
“Imagine the authority of yelling 'LISTEN' to a noisy room. Carry this with you.”— Phil Stutz, amazon.com
“When Cyrus the Great invited friends to dinner and then couldn't come, he'd send them food anyway so they knew he was thinking of them.”— Cyrus the Great, amazon.com
“In 20/20 hindsight, decisions maybe good or bad but not right or wrong. With regards to markets only expressed opinions can be right or wrong. Market positions are either profitable or unprofitable, period. But due to vocabulary quirks, it is easy to equate losing money with being wrong...They confu…”— Jim Paul, amazon.com
“The most complete and happy victory is this: to confound one's enemy's plans while suffering no material or moral loss oneself.”— Count Belisarius, amazon.com
“The darkness that haunts the lynch mob that in the day time is dispersed as lawyers, doctors, and church alderman. But that darkness hovers ghostlike in the shadowed alleys between the buildings. And at night it is all crazed power and torture, a thrill deeper that any ever imagined in the sleepy da…”— Karl Marlantes, amazon.com
“'One hope saves the defeated: they know they can't be saved!' That fired their hearts with fury of the battle.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“Surrender! The French army is right behind me. A republican general never marches behind his soldiers.”— General Dumas, amazon.com
“Mark Antony had a way out. Herod the Great's advice: put Cleopatra to death, annex Egypt. Let the pressure build all you want—if you have a scapegoat. She was his, he refused to use it. Died and lost every thing because of it.”— Anthony Everitt, amazon.com
“The fortune of war, dear Massena, changes from day to day. Tomorrow or later, we shall win back what you have just lost.”— Napoleon, Emil Ludwig, amazon.com
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, mentalfloss.com
“Eisenhower was a master of the 'hidden hand.' It's how he destroyed McCarthy.”— J.E. Smith, Dwight D. Eisenhower, amazon.com
“The lesson he teaches is that which vigor always teaches—that there is room for it.”— Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com