The next step is to 'Set the Table' for the sale by stating your agenda. This is both a method of directing the course of the meeting, as well as a trial close

Since its conception, the European Union has been a haven for those seeking refuge from war, persecution and poverty in other parts of the world.

Your family, friends, and connections are your real treasure. says my guama 外婆 (in Hokkien) or grandmother, Hermiña. I was only around six years of age when she said it. Yet I still hear it in my ears now and then. That and the quote, Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are. from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.

She would chat for hours, without thinking anything of it, with the chief of the village on her mother's estate, when he happened to come into town, and talk with him as if he were her equal, without any signs of seigneurial condescension.