“ Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. ”

“ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ”

“ People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most. ”

“ Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors. ”

“ Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy. ”

“ Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ”

“ Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid! ”

“ When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent... ”

“ The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ”

“ The Pope! How many divisions has he got? ”

“ Quantity has a quality all its own. ”

“ It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. ”