The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.