Wise as Serpents, Harmless as Doves

"When somebody says this is the deal of a lifetime and you can't pass it up, you almost have to run in the other direction."

(Reuben Mark, Chairman of Colgate-Palmolive, in “Colgate-Palmolive's Reuben Mark: On Leadership and 'Moving the Bell Curve'”. Knowledge@Wharton. October 03, 2007.)