Malcolm Forbes Quotes

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

When the conversation started to move to the things that we disagreed on, Donald Trump moved it back to the things that we could agree on. I think that's the way you get deals done, right? You and I might disagree 80% of the time but that still gives us 20% opportunity to try to work things out.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

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.

It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose.

If something concrete and meaty is offered to me from Kapil's side, I will definitely do it.

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.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

I think you can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you can oppose the president on some issue that you fundamentally disagree with, but also work with the other party on issues you do agree with.

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

A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

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

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