Well, I wrote a book in the late 80s called The Art of the Deal, and to this day, it's the biggest selling business book ever written.

And it doesn't change.

The times have changed.

The world has changed.

Business has changed.

But it doesn't change.

And to a certain extent, it was about negotiation.

And a lot of negotiations about honesty.

Be honest because the other side you're dealing with intelligent people, they're going to see it.

But have an idea, make sure it's the right idea, and never ever quit or give up on it.

And be straight, be honest, because you're going to meet a lot of these people all throughout

your life.

And if they respect you, and if they do more or less what you want them to do

you're going to have to show that great degree of honesty so the art of the deal was a great

honor for me because of its wonderful success I remember when it first came out it went immediately

to number one on every list and it was a lot of fun but it hasn't changed very much, and it probably won't.

If we go a thousand years into the future, if we're here in the sense of nuclear weapons and all the kind of things that are being bandied about today, that's the big risk.

I mean, beyond what Robert and I talk about is the big risk of, is this world of ours going to be blown up by some

maniac or some idiot that doesn't know what they're doing. But let's try and assume, which is a pretty

big assumption, that we are all going, as a race, we're going to be around, we're going to be here. The human race, it won't change.

Negotiation will never change.

It's always going to be the art of the deal.

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