When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

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