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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.