Peter Bondra Quotes

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

I really do not make deals.

The Republicans insisted on 60 days to review this deal but most of them made up their mind in less than 5 minutes.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.

When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

He who will not when he may, may not when he will.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

I hold to my conviction that, once this path of mutual understanding and consideration has been taken, more will come of it in the end than through ever so extensive pacts inherently lacking in clarity.

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

Twelve minutes. I can give you that.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.