Quotes About Negotiation

Boxing is boxing and business is business.

Boxing is a business.

I often come across a script I would like to do, but when it comes down to brass tacks I find the producer won't allow enough practice time.

The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.

I'm not sure a pain-free Brexit is possible.

Brexit will not be easy.

I'll keep fighting for the best, most successful Brexit.

You might want a certain type of Brexit deal, but you can't get it if the numbers aren't there.

Brexit can be stopped.

I'm obsessed with Brexit.

Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

I don't know if there's ever been a budget that anyone has been 100 percent happy with.

Bilaterals are like building blocks for multilaterals.

My father is a hell of an agent and hell of a businessman.

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

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.

We would all rather see Iraq resolved successfully.

People can be sensitive, so if I need to, I'll suck it up and be more flowery. I'll do what it takes to get the outcome I want. As I like to say, sometimes you have to crouch to conquer.

As a woman, sometimes when I am in discussion with a director or producer, there is some kind of a different politics happening. Basically, 'I know more than you'. I am always on the lookout for that. I don't want to get sucked into that. I am very quick to respond to that.

You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.