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 absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.