Help with Countifs function please!

Hi, 

I have created a summary table for persons and a quantity from another column. But within a table inside the excel sheet. 

I need to be able to count if column G - named Opportunities_table[Estimator] has ''James'', for example and column R named Opportunities_table[DEAL STAGE] one of the following words ''Submitted'' ''Negotiating'' ''Closed won'' ''Closed Lost'' but not ''Pricing'' ''Declined''. 

Currently have the formula as:

=COUNTIFS(Opportunities_table[ESTIMATOR],"JAMES",Opportunities_table[DEAL STAGE],"<>Declined""<>Pricing")

But it seems to be still counting them all and not excluding Declined and Pricing. 

Please help! Thank you!