Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.

Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.