The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.