Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.