Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.