You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

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 book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.