A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Keepthings 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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.