Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

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

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

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

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren, I'd have had them first.