Making Deals Quotes

#1. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Ed Koch

#2. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

Chip Conley

#3. When I finished my residency in New Orleans, I went to L.A. where I would work as a doctor during the day, and then at night I would actually go to The Improv and do standup, all the while kind of cultivating my comedy resume.

Ken Jeong

#4. I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

Bess Myerson

#5. History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

Nikki Giovanni

#6. That got her up on stage pretty quick, and she sang a song, which was in Spanish, so I don't know what it was about, except she seemed to be singing it mainly to Sharisse and it had a word that sounded like "poota" in it a lot.

Dave Barry

#7. It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors ... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

James Coburn

#8. I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#9. I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Laurence Sterne

#10. Happiness annihilates time.

Hugh MacLennan

#11. The camera is the slave to the actor.

John Cassavetes

#12. Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.

Peyton Manning

#13. We dominated Survivor - there is no way we would not dominate that, too. I can see it already, us making deals with people. That's the best part, and with the Race, it would be even more fun because I've got a lot of tricks up my sleeve.

Rob Mariano

#14. I would hope that American managers-indeed, managers worldwide-continue to appreciate what I have been saying almost from day one: that management is so much more than exercising rank and privilege, that it is much more than "making deals." Management affects people and their lives.

Peter Drucker

#15. Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

Donald Trump

#16. Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.

Felix Rohatyn

#17. It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

Harper Lee

#18. Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

Mal Fletcher

#19. I watched wealthy men and their wives and dates dancing and playing cards and making deals: I will admire you exactly as much, no more or less, as you admire me. I will love you in the strictest moderation.

Helen Oyeyemi

#20. Agents are deal makers, and they're really, really good at making deals. But they're also exceptionally helpful after the deal is made - agents act as a good intermediary between authors and publishers whenever disagreements come up.

John Romaniello

#21. It's a law enforcement axiom. But who better to help bust a crack dealer than another crack dealer? Who better to bring down a mob boss than another mobster? As long as there have been cops, they've been making deals with informants,

John Shiffman

#22. I would have kissed her goodnight, but it was six in the morning.

Jarod Kintz

#23. You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.

J. Paul Getty

#24. Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data ... to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

Herman Chernoff

#25. Stop making a big deal out of the little things
Cause I got big deals and I got little things

Drake

#26. Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

Two Chainz

#27. They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

Jack Welch

#28. Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really.

Patricia Nell Warren

#29. Death was sweet; it smelled of wine and stroked her hair.

Paulo Coelho

#30. A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#31. I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Julien Green

#32. I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

Donald Trump

#33. The best art looks and sounds prophetic; a genius borrows from tomorrow what he uses today.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. I've been making deals all my life.

Donald Trump

#35. I am who I am, a big dork who makes mistakes and deals the best way I can. I'm going to keep making mistakes and being a big dork because that's who I am. You can't deal with it, then you best walk out that door because that's the way it is.

Kristen Ashley

#36. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.

Donald Trump