A Quote by Glen Duncan

Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

Glen Duncan

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Quote Author

Glen Duncan
British - Author
Born: 1965

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Derek Waters

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Augustine Birrell

I'd feel bad if I had you come into a theater and you leave feeling ripped off.

Michael Moore

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

Leigh Steinberg

Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

James Bryant Conant

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Bret Stephens

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Khaled Hosseini

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David Langford

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James Frey

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

William Bernbach

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George Friedman

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