“Negotation is a point of interection of common interest.”

“Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.”

“The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no such common interest; nor can it be defined as the life, liberty, and well-being of the citizens, because they are continually being adjured to sacrifice their well-being, their liberty, and their lives to the national interest. In the end a study of modern history leads to the conclusion that the national interest of every State consists in its capacity to make war.”

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”

“People aren’t interested in the truth, Dafar. They’re interested in what keeps them safe. They’re interested in being looked after. They’re interested in a tale being spun... Mighty men have moments of great despair that common people do not want to know about.”