A nation reveals

A nation reveals
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.
  

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If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.
People loan their trust, they don't give it.
Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.
Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
Example is better than following it.
Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.