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

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

When weblame, we give away our power.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much