“A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.”

“There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.”

“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man.”

“Government succeeds by failing: the more incompetence, the greater the potential reward in the arena of the public sector.”

“Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”

“I was appointed by Hitler to succeed Canaris because it was well known and proven that my abilities were greater than those of Canaris.”

“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”