People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.