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Bargain

Definition: An agreement between two or more people or groups as to what each will do for the other. Negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
Number of Quotes: 11

It's a well-known proposition that you know who's going to win a negotiation: it's he who pauses the longest.
Robert Court

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept.
Charles Dickens

Some of them think they have me by the balls, but their hands aren't big enough.
Bernie Ecclestone

Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face ... Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - there is nothing so self-blinding.
B. H. Liddell Hart

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.
Thomas Hughes

Make a suggestion or assumption and let them tell you you're wrong. People also have a need to feel smarter than you are.
Mark McCormack

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.
Frank Nugent

Never make concessions.
Gertrude Stein

Be careful, be cautious, do not rush into negotiations ... be careful what you give away now, you may wish you had not done so should in future the balance of forces turn in your favour.
Oliver Tambo

My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
Donald Trump

The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
Mark Twain

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