Quotes About Strategy

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.

Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.

You don't get what you ask for, you get what you negotiate in this business.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

Trade deal negotiations are highly complicated and take a long time.

My five-year-old, before the quarantine, joined a chess class in our neighborhood in Brooklyn, and my husband was learning to play so that they could play against each other.

When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

I try not to have nerves. You have to be cold-blooded. You have to think, to look at the goalkeeper: how is he positioned? You study them, you know about them, even if there isn't always time, even if it's sometimes intuition. You look to see where he is.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.