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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.