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Mostly experience. Sorry.

I started getting a “wrong pay” by a shark in Luxembourg, I was unhappy. But then, if you asked compensation for now knowing how to negociate this contract, how do you know how to negociate a contract for nuclear weapons or for the biggest commitment of your company?

You don’t. You never do. The only correct way is to repeat. And thus, if you sell billion dollar contracts, go lower and do it more often, never go for the biggest ever. Or at least, progress step by step, so you know most of the major tricks. But if a major contract is your biggest ever by a multiple, then you’ll always br cheated on tricks you don’t know yet. And on smaller contracts you’ll cheat the weaker person. Don’t abuse it, but it’s part of the contract theory.



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