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

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.