Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos famous quotes

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.
-- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

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Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.
-- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

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Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.
-- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has

Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.