Rick Harrison Quotes

I'm not big with negotiating.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible as it is to buy at the right time.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

'Priced to sell' - just the phrase makes me smile. When a dealer says all the items in his booth are priced to sell, he means he's tagged them as aggressively as he can to get you to buy them. Don't worry, though, I still haggle. You have to. That's the point of a flea market.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.

It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want.

Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.

I knew I could get a better price without calling for bids

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.