“Secrecy is the foundation of politics.”

The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

I’m a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

The only ones to profit from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing are the owners of the fishing fleets who remain hidden behind veils of corporate secrecy.

I was thinking, “So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I’ll be able to make people read my books now.

I was thinking, “So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I’ll be able to make people read my books now.

How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!