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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Our distrust is very expensive.

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.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.