To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

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.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.