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

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

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

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.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.