Sentence examples for deal-making ability from inspiring English sources

"I think the big strength of InteractiveCorp is its deal-making ability," said Jeffrey Lindsay of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.

The billionaire also claimed his deal-making ability would somehow help Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace accord.

At Goldman, Murphy was reportedly renowned for his deal-making ability, which helped him advance through the company.

Nortel's deal-making ability has been a subject of great speculation since the announcement of the proposed merger of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel.

Mr. Gilberston is known for his deal-making ability, having built up Billiton, a British-South African miner, through a series of acquistions before it merged with BHP in 2001.

I said, 'What do you want to be – 0 for 3?' He went into the men's room and came back and said, 'OK, you got a deal.'" Only 5ft 2in, but with bags of energy, DiLeo cut a colourful figure, his cigar-chomping and deal-making ability reminiscent of Elvis Presley's manager, the self-styled Colonel Tom Parker.

Mr. Trump dispatched Mr. Ross to Beijing to continue talks through Monday, but the president has expressed wavering confidence in his deal-making abilities.

Blessed with a knack for deal-making and an ability to focus on what works, he transformed the ungainly MSN service into a top-notch Internet portal the way Henry Higgins civilized Eliza Doolittle.

But Laws clearly admired Osborne's deal-making skills, his uncanny ability to read the politics of rival parties as well as his own, his strong ideological compass and his vision.

The insights Clissold sheds on deal-making in China ultimately stem from an ability – born of years of experience and his fluency in Mandarin – to see any situation from a.local point of view.

As an investment banker who oversaw 360 bankers and analysts, Mr. Quattrone had the ability to influence every aspect of the deal-making machine that fueled the mania in technology stocks.