Eoin Colfer Quotes

Particularly when you're dealing with very high ranking people, you know, you have to get their attention, they are used to, by their rank, of having their own way and doing their own thing and when it's necessary to all work together on something, sometimes you have to hit the mule between the eyes of the two by four to get its attention.

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

A Yea might turn in to a Nae and vice versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know." "Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want." "Anything?" "Anything that doesn't require doing anything." "That's nothing, then." "Is it?" "Yes." "Well, that's something.

Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour.

If you want to buy something; it’s obviously in your best interest to convince the seller that what he’s got isn’t worth very much.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.

Mike Kelly [from The Atlantic] called me up and said he could pay me less money.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

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

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Never take no from somebody who cannot say yes.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

If you want to get a deal, negotiate with the teams yourself. Say, "I want this much, and no less, but I'll show up to camp on time." It doesn't seem that hard to me.