Jon Huntsman Sr. Quotes

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

I was really into classifieds for awhile. I'm a big negotiator. My father owned a car dealership when I was younger... it's just in my blood.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I've been making deals all my life.

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

You can never in negotiations be totally predictable. The minute you’re predictable, they’re going to figure out how to take advantage.

At the end of the day, leaders have to come up with pragmatic solutions that work