My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
“The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.”
“You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.”