Quotes About Negotiation

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

We also have our diplomatic secrets

Come in peace or leave in pieces

Brace up. We're not about to embark on a duel to the death over the dishes.

Sie schamloser Graubart«, sagte Luke. »Da opfern Sie mich für eine Tasse Kaffee!

I have decided to ask you to please go away." "All right," he said. "You asked me." "Please will you go away?" "No," he said. I could not think of anything further to say.

Well, a matchmaker, as you know, can talk a wall into marrying a hole in the ground;

All the bakers had banded together. They said he had to take back the workers he had fired and meet all three of their demands: (1) A ruble raise; (2) Sleeping-at-home rights; (3) No more knocking out teeth. It

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

Apply extreme caution when wearing red in the workplace. Even a simple demure red outfit -- a cashmere twinset -- can turn you into the office lightning rod. If you are crafty, you can use this to your advantage. To gain the upper hand in an upcoming negotiation, try wearing a flaming red silk blouse and painting your nails red.

Entre deux individus, l'harmonie n'est jamais donnée, elle doit indéfiniment se conquérir.

Better is peace than ever war.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is Look good during confrontations. Or if it isn't, it should be.

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.

I try to pay for lunch, but Sam point-blank refuses, so we compromise on going Dutch.

Peace is better than war because conflict resolutions can be made without a wastage of life and resources.

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the

Satan came to a lawyer and told him he would give him fame and fortune in exchange for his soul and the souls of his wife and children. The lawyer hesitated and examined Satan closely.'Okay," he said,"what's the catch?

I believe that the leaders of both political parties must try to work through our differences. And I believe we will be able to work through differences. I reassured the House and Senate leaders that I intend to work with the new Congress in a bipartisan way to address issues confronting this country.

As its name implies, an even swap increases the value of an alternative in terms of one objective while decreasing its value by an equivalent amount in terms of another objective. In essence, the even swap method is a form of bartering—it forces you to think about the value of one objective in terms of another.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Oh billions of dollars — is there no dispute you can't settle?

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

impatience gets the better of us. The politicians, no offense, see an impasse. So they give the word, and the armies clash. They take territory or destroy it, kill hundreds, sometimes thousands. And it all comes down to the ones who started talking giving in to frustration.