Quotes About Negotiation

it's just business nothing personal...

Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved.

Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly one minute. Les Halley signed.

Le haré una oferta que no podrá rechazar.

Nunca se aborreça — Don Corleone o havia instruído. — Nunca faça uma ameaça. Argumente com as pessoas.

Quiero que Mike sepa que fue por negocios —dijo—. Nada personal. Siempre sentí una gran simpatía hacia él.

Never make a threat. Reason with people." The word "reason" sounded so much better in Italian, ragione, to rejoin. The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.

Never get angry," the Don had instructed. "Never make a threat. Reason with people.

Ta s? Ä'Æ°a cho h?n má»™t l?i ?? ngh? mà h?n không th? t? ch?i.

This guy is a personal friend of J. Edgar Hoover," Johnny said. "You can't even raise your voice to him." "He's a businessman," the Don said blandly. "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

En las casi 4 semanas que pasó allá, negociando el alquiler del Henry Reed, obtuvo muchas informaciones, pero, siempre, con la sensación de que nadie llegaba al fondo de las cosas, que incluso las gentes mejor intencionadas le ocultaban algo y se lo ocultaban a sí mismos, temerosos de enfrentar una verdad terrible y acusadora

remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.

Sitting cross-legged on the rug, puffing on a pipe, wearing a fat gold Rolex on his wrist, Khamenei asked the colonel, "If we were to release all of you now, without any conditions, how long would it be before you could begin to supply us again with spare parts for our military forces?

So for Ho, the point of war was to force the United States to negotiate.

We have nobody in Washington that sits back and says, 'You're not going to raise that fucking price!'" And the Chinese: "Listen, you motherfuckers, we're going to tax you 25 percent!

By the time the war ended, Iceland was a changed country. Not least among the changes, in 1944 it had negotiated full independence from Denmark. Now it was free to negotiate its own relations with the rest of the world. Because of cod, it had moved in one generation from a fifteenth-century colonial society to a modern postwar nation.

Each must give way to the other if there is to be any happiness.

LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.

LYSISTRATA All right then— we have to give up all male penises. [The women react with general consternation]

But even in this perilous situation, the popular leader Cleophon managed to persuade the Athenians to reject the chance of a negotiated peace offered by Sparta after Arginusae, so that it is hardly surprising that the Athenians responded so warmly to the parabasis of Frogs, where the Chorus aptly upbraids them for choosing as leaders and fighters not the best men but the worst, just as they have traded their gold and silver coinage for base metal (686-705, 717-37).

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior

You cannot reason with a rifle bullet fired from across the battlefield. You cannot negotiate with an artillery shell lobbed from over the horizon. You cannot compromise with a nuclear warhead screaming in from half a world away. The only answer to the gun, the only defense for the gun, has been more guns.

There was the airfield that had a railway line crossing the main runway, and operated through a kind of nonaggression pact between the Flying Control Tower and the nearest stationmaster. When a train was scheduled to go through, no aircraft were allowed to interfere, and vice versa.

They want the shield, but they don't like having to pay for it—