I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.