Tang sighed: "Oh, it seems that I can't teach you how to be a human being. Don't you want to go to school and be a lawyer? A lawyer can steal money with a suitcase. A thousand robbers wear masks and guns. Not comparable."
The insult has no effect on him. Heigen’s negotiation skills were taught by Tang himself. "Never get angry," Tang taught him, "Never threaten, be reasonable." Saying "reasonable" in Italian sounds like "response." The key is to ignore all the insults and threats, get slapped on one face, and put the other face up.
In addition to his often repeated "one has only one destiny" theory, Tang also likes to blame Sonny for his tantrums at every turn. Tang believes that threats are the most stupid self-exposure, and releasing anger without thinking is the most dangerous wayward manifestation. No one has heard Tang send out naked threats, no one has seen him fall into uncontrollable fury. That is unimaginable. He just tried to teach Sonny his rules.
After Hagen left, Michael jokingly said to his father: "You have taught the others, now please tell me how to say no to them in a way that others like." Don walked to the big desk and sat down. "You can't say no to the person you love, at least not often. That's the secret. If you have to say it, you have to sound like it's affirmative. Or find a way to let them say it yourself. You have to be patient and not afraid of trouble.
Let your friends underestimate your strengths, and your enemies overestimate your shortcomings.
He was unmoved, but he thought to himself, if I could say "Life is so beautiful" when I die, then the other things won't matter.
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