Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

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

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

You can't unscramble an egg.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.