Tom Steyer Quotes

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.

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

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

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

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.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

We always find that taking a fairly hard-line position means our membership gets the best deal possible.

If after negotiations there are still some differences outstanding between us, the differences will be adjusted by arms.

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.

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

No exclusive,” I said aloud, watching Al for his opinion and seeing him shake his head and hold his hands out in a “bigger” gesture. He didn’t even know how large the offer was, and he thought I could get one bigger.

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.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

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

The way you get deals done and the way you get good terms, is to have a competitive situation.

I don't know one Jewish person that doesn't want to have a deal, a good deal, a proper deal, but a really good deal.

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

In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

It would be easier to be tough on Russian than make a deal. I don't know if we'll make a deal.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.