We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

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

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.