One culture isn't necessarily better or worse than another, but you can reduce the chance of misunderstandings and foiled deals by recognizing that differences exist, Dana said. Someone who shows up late for a meeting may not mean anything at all by it, she explained. He may simply feel much differently about time than you do. There are clocks everywhere you go. Everything is done on time.
Time is money.
We have all these expressions about time. We talk about saving time as though it were a valuable commodity you can lose. There is always time, so it's not that important if you don't do something today. You can do it tomorrow. He discovered later that he shouldn't have helped himself.