Quotes About Negotiation

I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.

Nobody's offering me $100,000 for a video.

I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.

For me, I don't talk about numbers. I've had big contracts my whole career; I just don't like talking about numbers if they're real or not real... whatever offers I've had, I always keep it private.

A move away from Arsenal did not fall through because I had no offers to move.

I was doing a show in Bridgeport, Conn., and getting offers for more money from Boston and other cities in the east. But I figured I would hold out for New York. Then one day, I got a call out of the blue from Hollywood from KNX.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

I'm not very fond of the first official act with a player being to immediately discuss his contractual situation.

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?'

The Kashmir problem is a very old one and has been a major challenge for all governments.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

One of the things my dad always said is that it's O.K. to do one for you and one for them. He taught me a lot of things, but that's certainly one of the many that I took to heart.

Any coalition, especially where one party is more powerful than the other, it's always bound to have a pecking order.

If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

We don't want open doors where we can beg; we want open doors because there is a serious dialogue.

I am willing to do business and I'm willing to play ball with anyone, for I am very open-minded.