Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

What isthe shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback isone of the essential elements of good communication.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.