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

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

What is well done is done soon enough.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.