Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.