Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.