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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.