It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Habit: the shackles of the free

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.