Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.