Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

To be preparedis half the victory.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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