Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.