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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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 person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.