Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Appeasers believe that if you keep throwing steaks to a tiger,the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-Heywood
It is good rule in life never to apologize.The right sort of people do not want apologies,and the wrong sort take mean advantage of them.
-P.G.Wodehouse
Anybody can become angry-that is easy;but to be angry with the right person,and to the right degree, and at the right time,and for the right purpose,and in the right way-that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-Aristotle

Sunday, April 13, 2008

We must all consult doctors,lawyers,bankers and other specialists to help us, but view experts with a jaundiced eye.Trust your own knowledge and instincts.When something sounds fishy,ask,"Says Who? Where is it written?" Is the expert there to help you-or to attend a bigger client, to please the boss, to get personal visibility or to win a better job? Never assume that so-called professionalism will protect you.
-David Mahoney
We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give; we should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves.Most of all,we ought to avoid giving counsel which we dont follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it,to be perfectly indifferent whether itis taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
-Hannah Whitall Smith
Commanders should be counseled,chiefly,by persons of known talent,by those who have made an art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience;from those who are present at the scene of action,who see the country,who see the enemy,who see the advantages that occasions offer and who like people embarked in the same ship, are shares of the danger.
-Lucius Aemilius Paulus,