If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

As a final incentive before giving up a

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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