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.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

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

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary