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

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.