In business, you're either growing or you're dying.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Words can be both wounds and bandages.

英明君主的官吏，宰相必定是从地方官中选拔的，猛将必定是从士兵中提拔的

审判自己比审判别人难多了，如果你正确地审判了自己，那么你就是一个真正的智者了。