A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

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

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.