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

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

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.