Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

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

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.