The property of power is to protect.

Are youreally listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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.