Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.