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

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.