Jonathan Stroud Quotes

My philosophy is to make an offer that the other guy can't refuse, because he thinks there's no way he can't win.

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.

I've got leverage on a guy that's 6-6, and I'm strong enough to push 600-plus pounds off on a double-team.

The less top players that are in the draw, the higher the chances get for us, obviously.

I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.

We may have been born on third base, but we worked like we were starting from home plate. You know: batter up.

I think I will have an edge over my rivals in terms of confidence and experience.

I stand a lot better chance to go further than Elton.

I think I have a lot of experience, especially of the big matches, and that is an advantage always.

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, 'leverage is power'.

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

The only way I was allowed to play was by convincing bands to let me do a few songs while they set up. That went on for years.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better.

Experience is everything. It means so much because it enabled me to learn the game even faster. Playing in the playoffs is the best basketball in the world, and if you can learn under that pressure, succeed under that pressure, it gives you more confidence the next year.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.