David O. Selznick Quotes

If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.

Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.

Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.

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

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

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.

When you sign a contract, that's your deal. Everyone has different deals anyway.

You can't sign just any contract.

We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.

I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options.

I authorize no bargains and will be bound by none.

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

If there's no overlap between the interests of the people you sit down with, then the negotiations really can't be driven anywhere.

I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

If you're going to sign a contract, there are things you have to understand you might have to do. If you don't, then you walk away.

The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'That's right.' Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'That's right.'

I don't sign contracts on a whim.