Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Every advantage has its tax

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.