Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.