Top 52 Best Negotiation Quotes
#1. Male appreciation hardened his features from doubt to certainty. Boobs, the best negotiation strategy of them all. She thanked the Lord and her genetics for her great rack.
Kate Meader
#2. The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.
Claudia Rankine
#3. No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
Jack Straw
#4. The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.
Ernest Bevin
#5. [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
Maria Callas
#6. During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
Brian Koslow
#7. It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.
Richard Shelby
#8. Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
William Winwood Reade
#9. Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.
Gene Sharp
#10. Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.
Moshe Arens
#11. Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.
Edward Hirsch
#12. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.
Chris Murray
#13. This isn't a negotiation. I want to make you cum, Lily. I am being very nice to you. It would be in your best interest to take my gift as it is and not be greedy.
Teresa Mummert
#14. Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.
Claire Danes
#15. The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another
negotiation .
Leigh Steinberg
#16. It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#17. If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it.
Chris Murray
#18. The client's question, "Are we getting the best deal?" (price negotiation) is very different from "Can we afford this?" (value justification); it is important to understand the difference.
Mahan Khalsa
#19. To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away.
Michael Weston
#20. Policy makers and business leaders take note: money matters. But often the best use of money as a motivator is to pay people enough to take the issue of money off the table - so that people can focus on the work rather than on the cash.
Daniel H. Pink
#21. The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
Eli Broad
#22. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#23. I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account.
Tony La Russa
#24. The art of negotiation favored not the one with the better odds but the one who could convince his opponents that his were the best odds.
Grace Draven
#25. Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
Akbar Ganji
#26. Sometimes directly asking for what you want is not the best way to achieve a desired result." As this story shows, good negotiation is a continual exploration of the realm of possibilities.
George H. Ross
#28. We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.
Rachel Hartman
#29. Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.
Bruce Springsteen
#30. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#32. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#33. Diplomacy may very well be the art of manipulating secrets. What would any negotiation come to, were not there secrets to either share or withhold?
Robin Hobb
#34. In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
Henry A. Kissinger
#35. We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.
George W. Bush
#36. Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
Hjalmar Schacht
#37. The bride will keep her name and, after considerable negotiation, the groom will, too.
Meg Waite Clayton
#38. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.
Stephen Kinzer
#39. There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Abdolkarim Soroush
#40. If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible.
Bernard Lewis
#41. It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!
Martin Henderson
#42. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.
Chris Voss
#43. Men don't want to be confused by the facts when their minds are already made up. Women know the art of negotiation - just ask the mother of a four-year-old who refuses to eat his veggies or the parent of a teenager.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#44. The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.
Donald Trump
#45. Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#46. Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships.
Ronn Elmore
#47. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Rumi
#48. Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
Chris Murray
#49. I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...
Anna Quindlen
#50. Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
Charles Caleb Colton
#51. Women wanted a new deal, and they expected him to know, without being told, what the deal was, and to agree to it without negotiation.
Ken Follett
#52. Any negotiation has a limit.
Otherwise, war is irrelevant.
Toba Beta
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