Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

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.