One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.