Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.