Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

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 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.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.