My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

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

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.