Gary Bettman Quotes

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.

Put two Yankees in a room together, and in an hour they will each have gained ten dollars from the other.

I was always the mediator.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

I really do not make deals.

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

People go hard with the scams. Make sure you know who you're working with and what the contract says.

Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

You have to find a partner when you're making a deal. You cant just say 'I need to make this deal and do whatever it possibly takes to make it.' That's not how it works.

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

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

If we have done anything wrong, send your man to my man and they can fix it up.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

Negotiations take time.

Negotiating is a little like jazz. You improvise on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you’re not always sure how to get there.

We always find that taking a fairly hard-line position means our membership gets the best deal possible.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.