Quotes About Negotiation

#1. Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

Bruce Springsteen

#2. 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

#3. Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

Harold Macmillan

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

Chris Murray

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

Hjalmar Schacht

#9. The bride will keep her name and, after considerable negotiation, the groom will, too.

Meg Waite Clayton

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.

Rachel Hartman

#14. He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.

Chris Voss

#15. 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

#16. The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

Donald Trump

#17. 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.

#18. Flexibility, negotiation, and compromise are at the heart of loving relationships.

Ronn Elmore

#19. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Rumi

#20. 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

#21. In a three-way negotiation, the weakest party actually has the most power - because his allegiance added to either of the other two will choose the eventual winner.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. 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

#23. Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Charles Caleb Colton

#24. 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

#25. Any negotiation has a limit.
Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

Toba Beta

#26. 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

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

Leigh Steinberg

#28. 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

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

Ernest Bevin

#30. [During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

Maria Callas

#31. 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

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

Richard Shelby

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.

Moshe Arens

#36. 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

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

Chris Murray

#38. 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

#39. Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Claire Danes

#40. 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

#41. It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

Henry A. Kissinger

#42. 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

#43. The ladies of Italy, seemingly carefree, wore constructions of iron beneath their silks. It took infinite patience, not just in negotiation, to get them of of their clothes.

Hilary Mantel

#44. She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin ... But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Charles J. Shields

#45. When America does not lead, the world is a dangerous and a tragic place. This is a bad deal. [Barack] Obama broke every rule of negotiation.Yes, our allies are not perfect, but Iran is at the heart of most of the evil that is going on in the Middle East through their proxy.

Carly Fiorina

#46. These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

George W. Bush

#47. You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.

Frank Herbert

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

Joss Whedon

#49. You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

Felix Dennis

#50. I was gonna open a gym and was in negotiation to buy the gym I was working out at. It was a small mom-and-pop and (the owner) wanted to move back to the west coast. My wife at (that) time came down with skin cancer.

Drew Waters

#51. The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

Mariano Rajoy

#52. Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Nora Ephron

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. It's your turn to talk," Tod said when several seconds had elapsed in pensive, angry silence from the hellion. "Negotiation is like playing tennis with words instead of balls. I thought you'd be better at this, considering your apparent lack of balls.

Rachel Vincent

#56. More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad.

James Levine

#57. The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

Paul Gauguin

#58. adviser, repeatedly requested that the NSA spy on the internal discussions of key member states to learn their negotiation strategies. A May 2010 SSO report

Glenn Greenwald

#59. Sorilla wasn't going to pretend that she understood how political discourse worked, but her idea of negotiation took five minutes and generally involved violence or the threat of violence if it lasted much longer.

Evan Currie

#60. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#61. The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas ... and that negotiation is the art

Wynton Marsalis

#62. Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Richard M. Nixon

#63. Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#64. 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

#65. Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle - clinically, a negotiation - over the possession of the Bad Mood.

Chris Bachelder

#66. By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Dale Carnegie

#67. President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

Henry A. Kissinger

#68. The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive.
Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!

David G. Jones

#69. We are all frustrated with computers, all the time ... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had ... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

Wade Guyton

#70. But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Diane Setterfield

#71. Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

Carrie Fisher

#72. Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Neal A. Maxwell

#73. And so was the synagogue lifted and moved. It was in 1783 that wheels were attached, making the shtetl's ever-changing negotiation of Jewishness and Humanness less of a schlep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#74. If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, you probably will not.

G.K. Chesterton

#75. Diplomacy was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

Tom Clancy

#76. We were not born to sue, but to command.

William Shakespeare

#77. many teams that say they have an estimation problem actually have a negotiation problem. A manager asks for an estimate. The team says, "That will take four days." The manager makes a counteroffer, "Can you make it two?" This is no longer a discussion about estimates. It's a negotiation.

Elisabeth Hendrickson

#78. No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Saul Alinsky

#79. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus

Steven Erikson

#80. 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

#81. All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test ... better. It's a negotiation tool.

Michael Gurian

#82. 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

#83. The goal of a successful negotiation is to achieve our objectives and continue to have people like us.

Sheryl Sandberg

#84. We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.
[ The Berlin Crisis: Radio and Television Address to the American People (The White House, July 25, 1961)]

John F. Kennedy

#85. We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.

Colum McCann

#86. If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Henry A. Kissinger

#87. What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

Felix Dennis

#88. Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Chris Christie

#89. In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win ... Both must win!

Nabil N. Jamal

#90. Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

Zainab Salbi

#91. I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

Siegfried Sassoon

#92. 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

#93. Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

Glen Duncan

#94. It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

George Bernard Shaw

#95. A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Chris Murray

#97. 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

#98. When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

Yul Vazquez

#99. Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

Sheikh Abdullah

#100. However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Hideki Tojo