“Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.”

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

He who marries a beautiful woman in hopes of being happy with her knows not but that even she herself may be the cause of all his uneasinesses.

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.

I am a stranger in all countries.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency.

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat ten of them.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general’s authority is weak.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

You want to go to work with people you like and where everyone is having fun.

I believe there is only one race – the human race.