If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

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