Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

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

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e