Quotes About Negotiation

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'

I am more focused on the games; things like contracts I leave with my agent.

Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.

We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.

If Donald Trump wants to acknowledge that we have a pay gap for women and we need to address it, I would work with Donald Trump.

You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.

Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

I'm not married to a 45-cent gas tax.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

I haggle with French grannies over their old knick-knacks and walk away with some real gems.

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.

There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

Imagine if you're playing at home and your girlfriend is badgering you all the time not to play. Wouldn't it be great to have a game you could play with her? Because then you can carry on playing the game and not get beaten up for it.

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

There were a lot of clubs interested in me - a lot, really. But Manchester United appeared and didn't go away. They absolutely wanted me, and it happened.

I never conduct business on the golf course.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

When you are close allies and good friends, like Denmark and the U.S. are, there should also be room for disagreements along the way.

Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit.