Ittakes time to save time.

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

Thework will teach you how to do it.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.