Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.