A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Thefirst principle of contract negotiation is don'tremind them of what you did in the past; tell them what you're going to do inthe future.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.