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

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

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 God we trust; all others pay cash.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.