Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.