Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.