Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

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

Money is the best rule of commerce.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

Everyone lives by selling something.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

When I was 9 or 10, I had a ten-cent business: I would walk your dog for a dime, go to the store for a dime, empty your garbage for a dime - and then I could use the money to buy tricks at the magic store.

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

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

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.

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I've been making deals all my life.

Let us sell merchandise to the Spanish and obtain from them gold and silver.

If I hadn't been fair, I would never have made the $6 billion in real estate deals that I did. I mean, if you're not fair, people don't want to deal with you.

The thing to do is to buy and sell.

Bartering is not my strong point.

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.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal.

If the price is right, I will sell anything.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.