"Not all of them." But the intricacies of the profession, at least the way he runs it, are not what's important here. The bigger matter is that of survival -- of both of them.

Luckily he knows a thing or two about making beneficial business deals, and that it's all in the way that it's pitched to someone else. Find the right words, and you can get what you want. "Then it sounds what you need is an arrangement that would meet your needs. Both of us could benefit from that."

Did he mean to slip that 'us' in there? Maybe.