Winning through Intimidation: How to Be the Victor, Not the Victim, in Business and in Life

Well written and easy to understand

Great Read. Should have read this in the 90's

Great book! I related a lot to the tortoise analogy. I study the market and methodically make my wins as well - definitely going to re read this

Enjoyed the principles and learning taught in the book, but I was amazed with how many spelling/grammatical errors there were for a book that’s been through several revisions/editions over the years.

Well written, story telling of business lessons in real estate… who knew real estate lessons with brokers and lawyers could be a fun interesting read??? This is highly recommended to anyone out there. Not just sales!

The biggest takeaway for me was, It's not what you say or do, it's your posture (status) when doing it. That corresponds to theaxiom, Often it's not what you say but how you say it. This is the third time I've read it so nothing jumped off the page. It is a nutsand bolts account of how the author became adept at asking for and receiving large commissions for putting real estate deals together.I profited from his account of absolutely going all out to secure his commission when it was threatened. He makes an absolutelylogical case for acting in your best self-interest. Somewhere in the book it said the New York Times rated it as one of the 15biggest selling self-help books of all time. You don't have to be a businessperson to profit from it.The author thought a lot about how to be successful and throughout the book he mentions in passing things he found to be true,such as the phenomenon of "The expert from afar." That is, someone from far away always seems to be more impressive thansomeone in closer proximity. He concluded everyone was going after as much as they could -- the law of the jungle; Screw-U.I recommend it.

I wish I read this book 5 years ago when I started in sales. Could’ve helped me avoid many mistakes and could’ve saved me money

This book covers two topics. It explains principals of how to interact with people and it provides stories of deals that went bad and how to prevent similar results. In my opinion, the latter was overbearing and took away from the former. First half of the book is a good read. The second half is a pass or for entertainment/reinforcement purposes only

Great business read

Excelentes estrategias para negociaciones y ademas para no dejarse intimidar

If anybody criticizes you for reading this book, and they haven't read the book, then watch out for that person. They may be exactly the ones to watch out for with regards to intimidation. I read this book about a year ago, and I still remember the tongue in cheek 3 types of people:1. People who want to screw you, and are open about it.2. People who want to screw you, but who claim otherwise.3. People who don't want to screw you, but end up doing so anyway.

Mention the title and many people will shrink away. Well, don’t judge a book by the cover as they say! Did you really think anyone would write a book saying you should frighten people into giving you a job?? It wouldn’t sell very well, would it?On the other hand, have you ever felt a bit ‘intimidated’ when you *applied* for a job? Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t. But if you aren’t in your ideal job, one that you know you could do, maybe you could find a whole new mindset to get there ...That is what happened to this reviewer many, many years ago shortly after this book had been recommended to him by his teacher. Consequently it is firmly on a short list of ‘books that changed my life’.Recently I bought this copy for a friend, an intelligent man who feels he’s been successful in life. Thing is, I know him, and am amazed he’s not in the sort of job that vastly exceeds what he himself believes he could do. This is what the book does.I didn’t find much to get excited about in other books he’s written — a few cool ideas, but not the remarkable game changer that this, probably his first book, proved to be.I’ve often bought the odd ‘self-help’ book to read on a plane. They’re entertaining and seem great until you put them down, get off the flight, and step back into the real world. Many don’t apply to everyone or else they’re written with lots of buzzword-filled pseudo-science, ‘inspirational quotes’ and dodgy logic. Ringer’s book on the other hand has big ideas condensed into a sentence that condenses into the action. Robert Ringer is someone whose hand I’d be proud to shake and thank him for writing his first book, “Winning Through Intimidation”.Make it your ‘bible’ — you may never look back!

Incredible insight to the realities of business jungle, Ringer supplied a fantastic array of metaphors now will forever stick with me. Thanks Rob!