Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

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

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.