The singlemost powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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

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.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.