Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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...

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out