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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.