Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.