If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

Arouse in the other person an eager want.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.