Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

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

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.