From our newsletter Outside the Lines – The Business Edition

Don’t take my word for it

Smart folks thinking out loud about power.

“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.”
James Allen, American writer

“You can have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power.”
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer

“Dear, never forget one little point. It’s my business. You just work here.”
Elizabeth Arden (to her husband), Canadian businesswoman

“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
Honore de Balzac, French writer

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.”
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
Elie Wiesel, Romanian writer

“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”
Steven Wright, American comedian