"The secret to success: find out where..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.”

“an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.”

“I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.”

“If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.”

“Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.”

“When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.”

“Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day.”

“One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.”

“Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?”