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

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

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.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

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

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.