The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation—if I may use that biological term—that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

我们都是自己的监狱，也是自己的狱卒。

冰和炭不能长久放在同一个容器里，寒天和暑天不会同时到来

"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."

The best leaders are those who listen more than they speak.