Uwe Boll Quotes

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

Practice negotiating, and hone your style and skills with low-consequence transactions. Call the phone company and threaten to switch providers if they won't give you a better deal on your service going forward. Go to a boutique and ask for a discount.

Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

We're all negotiators.

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

I've been making deals all my life.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only be mutual--it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

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

Negotiating is a little like jazz. You improvise on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you’re not always sure how to get there.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

Negotiating is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

You can never in negotiations be totally predictable. The minute you’re predictable, they’re going to figure out how to take advantage.

Success of negotiations cannot be guaranteed. If there is no attempt, then failure is guaranteed.

According to some of the goo-goo's, we ought to negotiate with every individual until he's happy.

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

In any negotiation you have a wish list but then you proceed from where you can be.