The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.