Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

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.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.