Roy H. Williams Quotes

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

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

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.

… the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.

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

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out that price

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

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

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

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

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another

The use of money and the use of words are analogous. Money is not always used to buy things which can be pointed to, e.g., when it buys permission to sit in a theatre, or a title, or one's life.

Dealing with political things, it's not for me. It makes me crazy. I want to buy, you want to sell. Please make it simple.

Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or from a salesman's point of view, if he's not making the sale, you're of no use to him. But if you suddenly come back into the showroom and are willing to buy, he's willing to sell.

Everything has a price.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

That’s the trick in any negotiation. Getting to yes means getting the other party satisfied that its interest are being met sufficiently…. You both got to get something out of it that your prepared to fight for at home.

Even money has a price.

There have been situations where I have lost movies because I've said, 'This is not a fair deal,' and I've walked away.

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.