Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

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.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.