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

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.