Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.