Buy low, sell high…
better yet: get for free, sell high
best: get paid to take it, sell high
Brian
The fun is not in the winning; it’s in toying with your opponent after you’ve already won.
Crumbs, I was on under the wrong name. Well, A_V’s post was mine, durnit!
- Don’t give 'em hell - sell it to them.
- If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then see if you can bribe somebody to get it done.
- There is only a finite amount of latinum in the Universe. Why shouldn’t you have more than anyone else?
- Buy low, sell highest.
- First Contact = virgin markets.
- Always drink less than the other guy in the negotiation.
- Business IS pleasure.
- The Universe is full of fools. Exploit them to the utmost.
(Just a nitpick re: earlier posts: “Ferengi” is the name of the race or an individual of that race; “Ferenginar” is their homeworld).
A Vulcan will tell you to live long and prosper. Take his advice, but have no further dealings with him; he has no greed and you can’t sell him logic.
(This rule does not apply during ponn-far, but that’s when they’re dangerous even to be around.)
Your wits are an asset. The love of your family is an asset. Guard them from competitors, and remember that they can be liquidated when necessary.
Let the customer think that he’s cheated you.
The worst disservice to profit is not attaining the necessary ruthlessness.
More opportunity is found in wild rumor more than in calculated foresight.
Karma can be forestalled with inexplicable acts of charity.
Avoid any bargaining table you can’t hear beneath.
Failure to know the Rules of Acquisition endangers all enterprises.
No venture, merchandise or service is in itself unprofitable.
Huh? Ferengi may believe that the Materials Continuum will provide. But they don’t believe in karma. Years of stabbing people in the back, cheating and lying won’t get you a comeuppance, poetic justice, or punishment of any kind- just eternity in the Celestial Treasury. For Ferengi, the only real sin is failure to profit. Those who commit it spend eternity in the Vault Of Eternal Destitution.
Geez, Doc. I’m only hue-mon. Get a grip! > Big Grin <
No money is the root of all evil.
If you can cut out the middleman, do that; if you can be the middleman, do that; best of all, do both!*
*See the machinations of Milo Minderbinder in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.
The customer is not always right. For one thing, he might not be aware that what you have is what he needs; your duty is to educate him.