Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

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

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

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.