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

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.