Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Example is better than following it.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.