It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

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

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.