Quotes About Negotiating

#1. That a healthy BDSM or kink relationship involves building a deep trust in each other, open and honest communication, using safewords, negotiating and sharing your hard and soft limits, and always involves activities mutually consented upon between adults.

Kallypso Masters

#2. There are only two types of people who can be totally honest with each other, lovers and strangers. Everyone else is just negotiating.

James Grippando

#3. I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#4. My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Anne Robinson

#5. The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009.

Keith Olbermann

#6. I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

Patrick Rothfuss

#7. tactics for negotiating with adults. I came on pretty strong at my friends' houses because

Amy Schumer

#8. At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

Rob Portman

#9. Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#10. If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

William Safire

#11. I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

Ursula Burns

#12. I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Larry Crabb

#13. There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

Gina McKee

#14. Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court - that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

Patrick Ewing

#15. We aren't negotiating." "Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is.

Pierce Brown

#16. Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy ... I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal, immoral, orfattening, give it your blessing." We do much better ... if we find and support all the places we can appropriately say yes, and say only the no's that really matter.

Virginia Satir

#17. Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Philip Hammond

#18. Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

William Blum

#19. The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

Boris Yeltsin

#20. Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

Chris Humphreys

#21. Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.

Bill Richardson

#22. One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Nelson Mandela

#23. I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.

Bill Shorten

#24. The capability of negotiating ... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Madeleine Albright

#25. Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#26. If he'd been negotiating Obamacare, Lincoln would have made the infamous 'Cornhusker Kickback' deal - $100 million in Medicaid funds for Nebraska to secure a Senator's vote - in a heartbeat, even if the press howled as it did when Barack Obama agreed to it, forcing its cancellation.

Joe Klein

#27. I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

Leeza Gibbons

#28. Sometimes, even when they were talking, they weren't really talking. Sometimes they were just negotiating each other. Keeping each other posted.

Rainbow Rowell

#29. It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Elizabeth Warren

#30. Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

James Cameron

#31. You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

Condoleezza Rice

#32. Many women are simply bad at negotiating (their salaries). Many are happy if they succeed in returning to professional life. The main thing for them is that their job is at least somewhat compatible with their family life. But that's exactly where they are wrong.

Kristina Schroder

#33. The kind of guy you can picture negotiating for hostages and also jumping away from an explosion.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Donald Evans

#35. The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.

Deborah Tannen

#36. Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#37. Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Earl Butz

#38. For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Deborah Tannen

#39. It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step.

Elliott Abrams

#40. People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

Michael Cunningham

#41. I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

Claudia Rankine

#42. Negotiating with memories isn't easy: how to choose between those panting to be told, those still ripening, those already shriveling, and those destined to be mangled by language and come out pulverized?

Steve Toltz

#43. IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

Abraham Lincoln

#44. The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

Hassan Nasrallah

#45. If Bailey wants to go, we'll go. I'm not choosing for her."
"You can't let her boss you around, man. She'll own your balls."
"She already owns them. At this point, we're just negotiating visitation rights."
Cooper grinned.

Bijou Hunter

#46. But instead of blaming women for not negotiating more, we need to recognize that women often have good cause to be reluctant to advocate for their own interests because doing so can easily backfire.

Sheryl Sandberg

#47. I'm negotiating the pull of the earth with the promise of the sky. I wonder how I will happen next.

Elizabeth Fox Brewer

#48. The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

Ronald Reagan

#49. company we are negotiating against. No one would take me seriously

Magda Alexander

#50. It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

Lamar Odom

#51. No for the return of Saddam's Baath party. This is against the constitution and those who are negotiating to bring them back are violating the constitution.

Jalal Talabani

#52. There's a very big difference between negotiating to borrow billions of dollars on behalf of MCA and negotiating to borrow 28 cents in connection with making independent pictures.

Sidney Sheinberg

#53. There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.

Isaac Yeffet

#54. If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

Nelson Mandela

#55. Speak to your darkest and most negative interior voices the way a hostage negotiator speaks to a violent psychopath: calmly, but firmly. Most of all, never back down. You cannot afford to back down. The life you are negotiating to save, after all, is your own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#56. Negotiating the Goodreads interface is like returning a giraffe's eyelashes to their follicles after a Napalm attack using only a rolling pin and a bucket.

Steve Whitmore

#57. I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

Leigh Steinberg

#58. Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Kevin O'Leary

#59. The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Donald Miller

#60. I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

Alan Keyes

#61. You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience.
Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiating with people who are sitting around in their underwear.

Julie James

#62. By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Maynard Webb

#63. Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#64. Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave
you may be given the opportunity.

Pat Heim

#65. Interactive management requires open, honest, and tension-free relationships with others. You do this by negotiating relationships and sharing, so that everybody wins.

Tony Alessandra

#66. Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

Kent Conrad

#67. I'm not big with negotiating.

Steve Schirripa

#68. Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

Eli Broad

#69. I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

Donald Trump

#70. It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Caprice Bourret

#71. It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

Sherry Stringfield

#72. With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works.

Robin Williams

#73. We always want to love the recipients of our charity," the doctor said, negotiating a sharp bend in the road with a surprising demonstration of steering skill, "but it is not necessary. Indeed, it is sometimes not possible.

Alan Bradley

#74. You are on your knees. . . .we are not negotiating.

Leigh Bardugo

#75. Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remains standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

#76. Empathy is the key to negotiating and resolving conflict.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

#77. I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly - though not exclusively - who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

Zainab Salbi

#78. Most of my career is spent in a meeting ... dressed sharply, looking really great; negotiating over a table, strategizing or coming up with new marketing plans or new ideas. And that makes me really, really happy.

Tyra Banks

#79. I am absolutely convinced that the E.U. will still be around. I am convinced the U.K. will be sitting at that table and not negotiating an exit, but being there to stay.

Mark Rutte

#80. It was those damn wool socks. He didn't realize he loved her until she
told him about out-negotiating a god of war - the most haggle-loving of the
gods - with socks!

G.A. Aiken

#81. 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

#82. 'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.'
'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.'
Still not looking at me, he growled, 'Oh, go to hell.'
I raised my water in a toast. 'Sure. I'll follow the trail of bread crumbs you're scattering.'

Josh Lanyon

#83. I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea.

John Hewson

#84. Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb, founders of Negotiating Women, Inc., describe this as the "Tiara Syndrome," where women "expect that if they keep doing their job well someone will notice them and place a tiara on their head."9

Sheryl Sandberg

#85. Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Jim Ratcliffe

#86. You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

Joe Slovo

#87. I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

John Prescott

#88. The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Leigh Steinberg

#89. Bruce Norris came in twice to audition for 'The Corrections' and subsequently spent many months negotiating every point in a four-year agreement to appear in the show.

Scott Rudin

#90. We've stated very clearly that no negotiating chapters between the European Union and Turkey will be concluded before the Ankara Protocol is complied with: that's to say before Turkey grants all E.U. member states, including Cyprus, access to its ports.

Angela Merkel

#91. 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

#92. Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

Bill Plympton

#93. Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear - except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

Joan D. Chittister

#94. Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.

Susan Neiman

#95. Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

Joyce Carol Oates

#96. In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

Riz Ahmed

#97. Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

Elizabeth Smart

#98. Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

Nick Clegg

#99. Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.

Mahmoud Abbas

#100. [Vladimir] Putin wants to keep [Bashar] Assad in power and expand his own military base in Syria, whatever the cost. I even believe he has an interest in more and more people fleeing the country. The flow of refugees improves his negotiating position toward the West, including the German chancellor.

Garry Kasparov