All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

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.

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

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves