All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.