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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.