"SET THE SCENE I always meet people in either a private members club or a nice restaurant. **I don’t meet people in my office or theirs because the spirit of a partnership should be about meeting on common ground** to create a win/win/win (you win, they win, the customer wins) deal. It creates the wrong starting point if one person has to make the trip to the other person’s office." ([Location 1759](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00NVQE4T8&location=1759)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[collaboration]], [[networking]], [[sales]], **Source** -- [[20250303112500 - B - Key Person of Influence]]