Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A half truth is a whole lie.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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.