When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.
Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.
Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.
After the fact, our hearts always go out to the fallen Goliaths. Yet we invariably root for their Davids. Until they're winners.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.