Quotes About Negotiation

It's all a matter of how agents want to handle their clients.

You may not like the way I deliver the truth - you may take umbrage with the way I handle most of my conflicts - but that's the way I do business.

A peace agreement isn't like a fairy story. You don't live happily ever after.

It may sound like showing off, but I am good in communications and in creating harmony.

The way you deal with bullies is you change their economic equation. Make it more expensive for them to hassle you.

My agent hates my directing career!

Be aware that the more often a child hears the word no, the greater his need to say no himself.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.

As David Cameron so brutally found out in 2015-16, there is limited appetite in Brussels to be helpful or flexible towards Britain.

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

The most expensive way to do business is to do it deal by deal, each of which is highly contentious.

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.

Unfortunately, to the ordinary people, war and peace were not very different. The trouble with all Anglo-Scottish wars was that no one ever won them; they were always liable to break out again.

Having wasted ten days searching for camels I could not find, I was glad to bargain with him.

My first judgment is my best. Yet always have I found it difficult to compel myself to proceed with a good bargain when made.

and don't take no shit from nobody, unless taking shit from them is part of your master plan to get the best of them by tricking them into being your friend.

El amor más intenso, quizá más débil que el odio, es una negociación, nunca concluyente, entre soledades.

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let us never forget ... beyond Europe's borders, in a world where oppression and violence are very real, liberation is still a moral goal, and freedom and security still need defenders.

No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

I had taken office during a raging intifada, with Yasser Arafat running the Palestinian Authority, Israeli leaders committed to a Greater Israel policy, and Arab nations complaining from the sidelines. By the time I left, the Palestinians had a president and prime minister who rejected terrorism. The Israelis had withdrawn from some settlements and supported a two-state solution. And Arab nations were playing an active role in the peace process.

Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.