When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

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

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.