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

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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.

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.