The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.