Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.