Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

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

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Thebasic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

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.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.