At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

People say law but they mean wealth.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.