Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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

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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.