When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

As the farmer said, "I'm not greedy, all I want is the land next to mine.