Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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 most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.