Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.