Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.