The Diplomat Knows
- What you say is important but what you don't say is even more important.
- Nothing is trivial. Great loves have been won or lost with the slightest gesture or intonation.
- Always understate your case.
- If a personal attack is necessary, let it be made by someone who will soon be leaving town.
- The party who cares least has enormous power.
- It may take more than 20 years to determine who really won a dispute.
- If you are truly powerful you don't need to raise your voice.
- Many fights are won not by victories but by not losing.
- The problems on the horizon will usually disappear before they reach you.
- Some of the most dangerous people in the world are unrestrained idealists.
- If you want to make something permanent, call it a pilot program.
- One of the best ways to kill a creative proposal is to assign it to a committee.
- Never attack anything half-heartedly.
- Your enemy today may be your ally tomorrow.
- The friend who is so amiable that he would never attack you may also be so amiable that he'll never defend you.
- Very hard messages can be delivered in a very polite manner.
- Lions and lambs tend to behave like lions and lambs, however much they may pretend to do otherwise.
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