Quotes About Business Negotiation

#1. For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question

Rick Yancey

#2. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.

Chris Murray

#3. I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Sanaa Lathan

#4. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job

Chris Murray

#5. Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.

Irl M. Davis

#6. I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

Diane Kruger

#7. The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

Lois Wyse

#8. Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.

Chris Murray

#9. A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Terry Pratchett

#10. You will always be more than one person. You will always embody contradiction.

Frank Schaeffer

#11. 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

#12. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.

Chris Murray

#13. My brain has always been my enemy, and I've spent much of the past decade warring against it, with therapy and razor blades and bad behavior, with precision-guided prescriptions that targeted specific regions.

Pete Wentz

#14. Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve

Chris Murray

#15. Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

Chris Murray

#16. We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Bob Ney

#17. Being down is not abnormal; it's a virus that we all must contact at different times. Who you look up to recovery is what separates us! This phase has a terminal date.......

Bayode Ojo

#18. The commitment gap is the massive distance between "yes" and "maybe

Chris Murray

#19. There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

Kether Donohue

#20. The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.

Chris Murray

#21. Balastair says with a small smile. I've missed you.

Chuck Wendig

#22. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs

Chris Murray

#23. 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

#24. The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another
negotiation .

Leigh Steinberg

#25. The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Ernest Bevin

#26. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.

Chris Murray

#27. When Events are delivered to interested parties, in either local or foreign systems, they are generally used to facilitate eventual consistency.

Vaughn Vernon

#28. 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

#29. Very early I learned that you have to be true to yourself about what you care about--what you believe in. If you're not, you have nothing at all. You have to listen to that bird inside that tells you what's right. Patrick Swayze

Sue Tabashnik

#30. Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Joss Whedon

#31. 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. Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there's no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he's lying, and you're being taken.

Mike Stackpole

#33. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#34. For guys who are into fitness, I think it's important to wear slim-fit stuff that is pretty tight so they can show off the bodies they have been working hard to have. Women are going to appreciate that.

Carl Hagelin

#35. So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Kevin O'Leary

#36. If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic.

Maggie Stiefvater

#37. Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises

Chris Murray

#38. Success is a drink you enjoy on the journey towards happiness. Risk is, you could get drunk!

Amit Chatterjee

#39. 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

#40. Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you're wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It's the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

Keith Urban