Good Negotiation Quotes

#1. Three rules of good negotiation:
1. Know what the other party wants.
2. Listen carefully.
3. Don't let your emotions get in the way of a good deal.

Betty Liu

#2. 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

#3. 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.

#4. It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Richard Shelby

#5. The thing about negotiations, not to mention the manipulation, is you can't go too far in any direction. Refusing once is good, twice is usually okay but a third is risky. You never know when the third person will stop playing and you end up with nothing.

Sarah Dessen

#6. The researchers thought that recipients of precise offers are much more likely to believe that the person making that offer has invested time and effort preparing for the negotiation and therefore has very good reasons to support the precise offer they are making.

Robert B. Cialdini

#7. When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Aussie, or you were one of 'the wogs' - which was everybody else. But I didn't want to be in either group, so I felt like an odd one out.

Jonathan LaPaglia

#8. How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

Ashleigh Brilliant

#9. Be bloody bold and resolute.

William Shakespeare

#10. No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.

Herman Melville

#12. Unlike the women she'd known back at home, these women didn't thrive on gossip. They built each other up rather than tearing each other down.

Marie Force

#13. Never underestimate the kick to the groin.

Bas Rutten

#14. Make me an instrument of thy peace.

Francis Of Assisi

#15. She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

Mark Salzman