Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.