Business Deal Quotes

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.

In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.

I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'

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

Towards the end of 2005, Ineos acquired Innovene, the petrochemicals arm of BP, for $9 billion. It quadrupled the size of Ineos overnight and brought with it some of the world's largest industrial sites.

I'd like to have had a bigger piece of Thanos than I do, but when the first 'Avengers' movie came out, Marvel and I - we renegotiated some things, so I get a taste out of this thing. I'm not becoming the next Bill Gates, but I'm getting a little something out of it.

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.'

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.

It's difficult for them to do a deal at these levels.

The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.

Mr. Rockefeller is due to entertain munificently at breakfast, and make his pitch. My advice to one invited guest was: Order caviar, and then say No.

As long as somebody 'CTC,' at the end of the day I'm with them. For all you that don't know what CTC means, that's 'Cut The Check.'

I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.

Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Vince McMahon can end up in a federal lawsuit with you where there is mudslinging back and forth that makes the front page of 'The Wall Street Journal,' and if tomorrow he figures out a way where the company can benefit from your involvement, you will be at a negotiating table with him at lunch.

I intend to buy 'The New York Times.' Please don't take it as a joke.

AOL-Time Warner didn't want a WCW property on their platforms - being TNT or TBS or anything else - in any way, shape, or form, and that was the death nail.

When you sit around with a Britisher, he usually gets 80 percent of the deal

I have one client: Donald Trump.

I wanted to sign. We scheduled a meeting for the final race of the season in Japan but Frank Williams wasn't there and then he suddenly pulled the offer. On a human level I'm very disappointed with him.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.