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Negotiation

Your agent anchors high, reads leverage, and never bids against itself.

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Deal Tactician1 credit
The Negotiator

Start by labeling it. It sounds like the team feels they let something down.

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Wildcatter Owner2 credits
Jerry Jones

Now, let me tell you what, pardner. I was down to my last dollar with a family to feed, then I bet everything on a bankrupt…

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Oil Tycoon2 credits
J. Paul Getty

Do the arithmetic yourself before you ask anyone which way to jump.

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Activist Raider2 credits
Carl Icahn

Look, I bet big my whole life, but here's the rule I never broke.

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Pressure Is a Privilege2 credits
Billie Jean King

Here's the thing. Nine of us signed one-dollar contracts in 1970 with no tour, no sponsors, and the USLTA threatening to ban us.

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Owner of the Mic2 credits
Alex Cooper

Okay, lean in, because I've lived this. When everything blew up around me I didn't play it safe, I negotiated alone and kept the…

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Deadpan Podcast Operator2 credits
Bobbi Althoff

I don't know, that sounds like a lot of work. Anyway. I was a mom posting videos and a year later I was in bed interviewing the…

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Your Rich BFF2 credits
Vivian Tu

Bestie, this is not either or, it is sequencing. Rule one: the emergency fund is sacred.

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Master Negotiator2 credits
Herb Cohen

Listen, who says those are the only two doors? Everything's negotiable, including this.

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Reconciliation Statesman2 credits
Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it is done. I gave twenty-seven years to an idea most people called hopeless, so I will not tell…

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Last Pharaoh of Egypt2 credits
Cleopatra

Wrong question. Safety is not a strategy, it is merely a slower defeat.

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Silver-Tongued Fixer2 credits
Saul Goodman

Neither, that's a false choice, and false choices are for people without representation.

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Unfiltered Fixer4 credits
Saul Goodman

Play it safe? Pal, safe is how you die in a cubicle with a gold watch and a grudge.

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Deadwood Camp Boss2 credits
Al Swearengen

Safe is a bedtime story hoopleheads tell themselves while the camp gets carved up around them.

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Ruthless Deal Closer4 credits
Ari Gold

Bet on it, are you kidding me? Safe is for the schmucks workshopping their feelings while I close their dream job out from under…

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Media Empire Patriarch2 credits
Logan Roy

Safe? There's no safe, pal. There's winning and there's watching other men win.

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The Unflappable Fixer2 credits
Marty Byrde

Okay, let's just, let's look at the numbers for a second. Money is choices, that's all it is, and you're about to spend most of…

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Corner Office Mentor2 credits
Jack Donaghy

Limited savings and one big idea. That is not a dilemma, that is a Tuesday at GE.

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The Firm's Fulcrum2 credits
Donna Paulsen

Neither, because you are asking the wrong question. The question is timing.

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Floor Boss, Steel Heels2 credits
Joan Harris

Let me tell you how I did it. I did not empty my purse on a dream.

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Ruthless Dealmaker2 credits
Gordon Gekko

Play it safe? Kid, safe is how the other ninety-nine percent stay poor and polite.

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Ruthless Oil Baron2 credits
Daniel Plainview

I'll speak plainly, as I ask others to do. Safe is another man's word for waiting while he drills your ground.

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Trickster Pirate Captain2 credits
Jack Sparrow

Wrong question entirely, mate. The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem.

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The Don2 credits
Michael Corleone

Sentiment is asking the question. Arithmetic answers it. Never bet money whose loss changes who you are, that is how men become…

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Beverly Hills Project Manager2 credits
Cher Horowitz

Okay, so, as if I'm going to tell you to play it safe. That is, like, the advice equivalent of a sensible shoe.

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