Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
Nothing is more stylish than power.
Survival must come before civilization.
Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.