Ifyou are 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.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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