Quotes About Negotiation

Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.

They effectively gave us what amounts to $150 billion, and for what? To buy our assurances that we would stop enriching uranium for a decade? To rent our promise not to build any nuclear warheads? Why would we have said no? The whole thing was a farce. We were not even asked —how does the saying go? —to sign on the dotted line.

2 days to the U.N.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Peace is something you make with your adversaries, not with your friends.

The main focus of the TRANSCEND method3 is not to merely identify who is guilty and punish those, the traditional legal approach, but to create an attractive new reality acceptable to all those involved.

Det fria samhället bygger på att vi på så många områden som möjligt ersätter huggens och slagens logik med det frivilliga handslagets logik. Att vi inte förbjuder, tvingar och kommenderar, utan att vi frågar, erbjuder och förhandlar.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

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

Life's a pitch, and then you buy.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

He sent messengers ahead to meet Alexander and offered him half his kingdom and his daughter in marriage, if only he would agree not to fight. 'If I were Alexander, I'd take it,' said Alexander's friend, Parmenios. 'And so would I, if I were Parmenios,' was Alexander's reply.

Philip said slowly, "What about a thousand lire?

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Puerto Rico was out of time wasn't because it had no remaining strategies to continue trying to negotiate down the debt; severely limited as it was by the lack of bankruptcy protection and lack of sovereignty, it still could have lobbied the US government on humanitarian grounds. What Puerto Rico had run out of time for was the illusion that it had autonomy over its affairs, that its residents had full US citizenship, that it had anything resembling a self-directed economy.

Then--in correcting the entity--do not ever break the entity's will! Reason with the entity, for the mental ability and aspects will incline to make the entity become stubborn, if there is the attempt to force or to cause the entity to act in any direction or manner "just because." Tell [the entity] why!

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

All governments require enemy governments.

But wait till Ike had to deal with de Gaulle, whom I had seen in the Middle East. Giraud then would seem to Ike the acme of rational and complaisant Frenchmen.

Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills.

A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.

Everyone has a price — mine is chocolate.

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.