Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.