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.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .