Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Every advantage has its tax

They know enough who know how to learn.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.