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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.