Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

The first duty of love is to listen.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.