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 good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.