So, you can always negotiate harder and I certainly could have negotiated harder [in this particular case] but I would prefer—I mean, maybe it's a personal style—I certainly would prefer that, you know, they come, or eventually come round to your view.
Executives prefer that you know everything about them before a meeting, and I didn't know this guy wasn't a sports fan.
(Perhaps a few polling firms would prefer that you not know how the sausage was made).
Today, you offer a kid $30 and they look at you like, 'What?' " Mr. Kennedy said he would prefer that Rahway was known for its efforts to use art and cultural performances to foster urban renewal than as a magnet for snow or its skill at removing it.
Mr. Perry explains that things are different in Texas, where there is no income tax, "fair and predictable regulations" (very helpful if you prefer that first responders not know how much explosive ammonium nitrate is on hand at your fertilizer plant), and lawsuit reforms that "keep trial lawyers out of your pockets so you can grow your business".
The club had just spent $200,000 on an underground heating system that had failed to work, and Lombardi strongly preferred that shareholders not know.
We expect snow jobs from the Bush administration as a matter of course now, but we'd really prefer that press conferences actually... you know... have the press in the audience.
When you're at the supermarket, prefer products that are not over-packaged (you know the one: plastics wrapped in plastic, itself wrapped in cardboard...)...
I still would have preferred to win, but, you know, that was forever ago".
Before shopping around for a bank, decide what you prefer, so that you will know which bank is right for you.
