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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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

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.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The property of power is to protect.