"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength."

"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration."

"All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world."

"The blood is life... and it shall be mine!"

"Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?"

"Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!"

"He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow."

"Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise."

"Souls and memories can do strange things during trance."

"I feel myself quite wild with excitement."

"I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore."

"The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told."

"And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman."

"For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me."

"274. "I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"I am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house."

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

"Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."

"Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information."

"Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window."

"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."

"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

"Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same."

"Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most."

"Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?"

"A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!"

"I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup."

"Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless."

"If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me."

"And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper."

"You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms."

"Do not fear to think even the most not-probable."

"The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product."

"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."

"The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager."

"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."