It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.
I believe that Brexit, whether it's a bad deal or no deal, is a big deal - too big for anyone to ignore - but it's not a done deal.
I am Brexit tooth and claw, but we need to be pragmatic and sensible and leave with a deal.
I always ask two questions when we are closing in on a deal: What currency are we dealing in and how many people are expecting to get paid as part of this transfer?
The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
We were happy with funding 'Rage' on our own nickel for years. We intended to do the same with 'Doom 4'. We had offers early on for 'Rage'. People offered us X million dollars. But we carried the risk, and when we finally signed a deal, it was X plus $10 million.
If you only sign the players of one FIFA agent, sometimes you can make the deal, sometimes you can't.
We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.
I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.
Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.
When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.
Labour is fundamentally a Remain party but it is in our interests to negotiate as good a deal as possible.
I love doing deals and operating companies.
The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I'm wrong, that there's nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can't see the actual deal.
The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.
To deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit, we must build a majority for a deal.
