Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.