Top 100 Quotes About Negotiate
#1. You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
Harvey MacKay
#2. Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.
Nick Hanauer
#3. I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the secret of resilience; that's what I'm always exploring in the stories and the novels.
Janette Turner Hospital
#4. It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
Leigh Steinberg
#5. Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
Helen Fisher
#6. You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. Having enough other opportunities to work on is the best position a salesperson and his or her company can be in. A full pipeline gives salespeople the strongest position from which to negotiate - the ability to say no.
Keith M. Eades
#8. While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.
Sheri L. Dew
#10. I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
Claire McCaskill
#11. Because I'm fat, people believe I'm somehow vulnerable and easy to handle in a negotiation. Ever try to negotiate with a fat guy? We can be mean: Marvin Davis, Harvey Weinstein, Hermann Goering. No one screws around with us for long.
Bernie Brillstein
#12. Can you be bought?" Pilar demanded.
Maddy slid into the booth, grinned. "Sure."
"Let's negotiate." Pilar sat down beside her.
Nora Roberts
#13. The more we ignore Assad and negotiate an appeasement with Iran, the more Sunni and Shia extremists will multiply and flood Syria.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#14. Diplomats negotiate. That's what I do on my show. So I consider myself a diplomat in showbiz.
Woody Milintachinda
#15. President [Ronald] Reagan told me he would negotiate and negotiate and negotiate with the Soviets, and I believed him.
Helmut Schmidt
#16. The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
Ban Ki-moon
#17. Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It's the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.
Ivanka Trump
#18. In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.
Sam Altman
#19. Try to negotiate with yourself for success.
MHZ
#20. In the desert, success is the understanding of limits. One false move and you die. You can't talk your way out of thirst. Bare skin burns. Face-to-face with a spitting rattlesnake, the only thing you have to negotiate is your escape. There are rules in the desert. Pay attention. Adapt or parish.
Terry Tempest Williams
#21. Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.
Wick Allison
#22. There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#23. If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#24. The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.
Paul Gilding
#25. In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.
Michael Mullen
#26. You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.
Leymah Gbowee
#27. Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably
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misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own.
John Updike
#28. Love isn't something you can negotiate, Nash. When it happens, it becomes everything.
Jay Crownover
#29. Life is not something we can manage or control. It's something we negotiate every time the path takes a turn.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#30. Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.
Richard Cobden
#31. Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#32. That window is closing ... Now, the clock is ticking ... We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process ... We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate
Barack Obama
#33. Generally, the president's power and capital is used to close a deal and not always to negotiate bit by bit.
Leon Charney
#34. When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Marc Maron
#35. We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
Grover Norquist
#36. Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
#37. It is time for Republicans in D.C. to fight. Too often, they give up; they negotiate with themselves. They said they would get rid of the unconstitutional amnesty. They didn't do that. They said they would repeal Obamacare if we gave them the majority. They didn't do that, either.
Bobby Jindal
#38. It's always something we have to negotiate - the fact that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done.
David Levithan
#39. The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'
John F. Kennedy
#40. Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.
David Letterman
#41. In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.
Randy Harrison
#42. I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.
Constance Marie
#43. The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition.
Plutarch
#44. As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.
Leigh Steinberg
#45. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.
Charles Taylor
#46. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
Don King
#47. Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#48. Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#49. True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
Moliere
#50. ...holding your hand out and making a gesture that, in the surreal parrallel universe of the classroom would suggest that instruction, but anywhere else would be taken for a drunkard's poorly achieved impression of an epileptic spider failing to negotiate a hairpin bend.
Phil Beadle
#51. A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
Jimmy Carter
#52. President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
Colin Powell
#53. What's it like being a writer? Mostly it's like being a child surrounded by adults. My friends have grown-up careers. They balance spreadsheets, analyze data, negotiate deals. They build things, heal patients, teach children. Meanwhile, I'm over here saying "Let's pretend.
Jennifer Froelich
#54. Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.
Donald Trump
#55. No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels.
Sheryl Sandberg
#56. I'll negotiate with toughness, and with great attention to detail to get the best possible deal for Britain. It's only when we are outside the European Union that we can at last bring those numbers [of migrants] under control in the way that the public want.
Michael Gove
#57. Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.
Julia Phillips
#58. We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear.
Ronald Reagan
#60. Never negotiate with terrorists, make bargains with mobsters, or drive downtown on game day. Some things are just a given.
Genevieve Dewey
#61. You don't want to negotiate the price of simple things you buy every day.
Jeff Bezos
#62. Oh, hell no!" I yell at them. They are not about to negotiate as to whether they get to see my goods. "Denton, I swear to God, if you come over here, I am sending you anthrax in the mail!
Angeline Kace
#63. There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.
Ehud Olmert
#64. Russia doesn't negotiate with terrorists. It destroys them.
Vladimir Putin
#66. I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.
Shimon Peres
#67. Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
Caroline Myss
#68. Know what they say about abominations," Caldenia said. "We make the worst enemies." "Was that a threat?"" Dagorkun's eyes narrowed. "A warning." Caldenia folded her hands on her lap. "There is only one time to make threats: when you intend to negotiate. I do not.
Ilona Andrews
#69. You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.
Will Ferguson
#70. I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.
Ted Nugent
#71. My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
Laura Bell Bundy
#73. We have a sane part of our minds and an insane part. We negotiate between those two parts.
Haruki Murakami
#74. If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
Chuck Grassley
#76. The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.
Harry Martinson
#77. If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.
Nelson Peltz
#78. People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
Margot Robbie
#79. As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.
Kari Matchett
#80. When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.
M. Scott Peck
#81. Time may be the one thing in the world I can't negotiate, no matter how.
Sophia Amoruso
#82. By this time the Vietnam War was such a confusing issue to most Americans that Nixon could take as many positions as he liked and find support somewhere for them all. Roughly equal numbers wanted to expand the war as negotiate a peace.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#83. I am not the center of the universe. And it's a lesson that I keep having to learn; it's my ongoing work, I'd say. And being in a career that is predicated on a degree of self-absorption, that is a tricky thing to negotiate sometimes.
Patrick Fabian
#84. Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
Jim Clyburn
#85. In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain.
Douglas Alexander
#87. We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
Ani DiFranco
#88. We are enemies. I would as soon kill you as have dinner with you. But even enemies can negotiate, can't they, now?
Tom Clancy
#89. This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies
Dennis Prager
#90. Grand visions, even those as prescient as Washington's, must nevertheless negotiate the damnable particularities that history in the short run tosses up before history in the long run arrives to validate the vision.
Joseph J. Ellis
#91. Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
Nelson Mandela
#92. You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.
Stephen Graham Jones
#93. The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it.
Alex Berenson
#94. I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.
Jim Shepard
#96. In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#97. It's a beautiful universe ... wondrous and the more exciting because no one has written plays and poems and built sculptures to indicate the structure of desire I negotiate every day as I move about in it.
Samuel R. Delany
#98. It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.
Rachel Dolezal
#99. It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.
Tim Berners-Lee
#100. Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.
Mike Rogers
