Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Luck never mad a mad man wise