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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.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The present is never a happy state to any being