George Schultz — American Public Servant born on December 13, 1920,

George Pratt Shultz is an American economist, statesman, and businessman. He served as the United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972, as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974, and as the U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989. Before entering politics, he was professor of economics at MIT and the University of Chicago, serving as Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1962 to 1969. Between 1974 and 1982, Shultz was an executive at Bechtel, eventually becoming the firm's president. He is currently the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University... (wikipedia)

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
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