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

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.