Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

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

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.