Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

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.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.