Quotes About Negotiation

Real estate sales was perfect training for the experience to go into public life because you learn to accept rejection, learn to meet new people, learn to work with people and find common ground. That's the way you sell houses... that's also the way you win over constituency.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

Politics presents few win-win situations for partisans on either side.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

Most of us don't look at investment in a win-win situation. You have to give in a little bit; you have to take a little bit. Most feel everything has to be rinsed out for closing of the transaction.

I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.

Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.

I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.

For a 20-year-old kid to be taking on Liverpool Football Club over a contract. To the pit of my stomach that just winds me up, it angers me.

You can cut the fat from your spending: Stop taking taxis, call your cable company and ask for the same deal new subscribers get, have dinner at home and then a drink out instead of a $100 meal with wine.

When I was asked to manage some issues in Europe for the government, I didn't go to Parliament and just make a great speech and impress them. Instead, I will go down and discuss with those people about certain issues that we don't agree, and over a glass of wine we talk about it and they say 'okay, let's forget it.'

Like they said about The West Wing, you can't do a show about Washington until you can.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

War's stupid. Nobody wins. You might as well talk first; you have to talk last anyway.

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

I would love to help the textile sector, but at the same time, a big red flag is held by the automotive parts and automotive sector. They don't want to open up to the European Union.