Niccolo MachiavelliThinkers

Audacity often achieves what ordinary means fail to achieve.

Bravery is a natural quality of few men, but good discipline and experience make many so.

Change is always a kind of beginning. One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Change is more difficult and dangerous to carry through than anything since one immediately makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would allegedly prosper under the new.

Conspiracy is rare. Before looking for it, one should always assume incompetence.

Deception is detestable in all things but in the conduct of war where it is laudable and honorable.

Deception is a thing we let befall us because we concern ourselves with present needs.

Diagnosis is, in problems of the state, the same as in medicine: In the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose... but as time passes, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure.

An Entrepreneur is simply one who understands that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and is able to turn both to his advantage.

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.