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.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

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.