The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.


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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of ...
GRAHAM GREENE
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exu...
SHEILAH GRAHAM
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing...
GORDON GRAHAM
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai...
GRAHAM GREENE
Failure too is a form of death...
GRAHAM GREENE
His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
GRAHAM GREENE
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM
To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?
KATHERINE GRAHAM
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM
Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just th...
HARRY GRAHAM
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a ma...
GRAHAM GREENE
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
VIRGINIA GRAHAM
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning o...
GRAHAM GREENE
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
GRAHAM GREENE
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves again...
GRAHAM GREENE
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to hi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgi...
GRAHAM GREENE
Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM
Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
GRAHAM GREENE
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n...
GRAHAM GREENE
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
GRAHAM DAY
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bri...
GRAHAM GREENE
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be...
GRAHAM GREENE