Quotes About Negotiation

You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

You can always turn no into yes, and usually make people happy, but it's a lot harder – sometimes too late - to change yes to no.

Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats, Graham said. The good news is they come cheap.

Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist.

their heels," Priebus said. "Put all the chips on the table. And then slowly but surely pick off each chip individually." It could be a person, a policy, a country, a foreign leader, a Republican, a Democrat, a controversy, an investigation—Trump would try to leverage anyone, by any means, and at times he would succeed.

the real battle was going to be over tariffs, where Trump had the most rigid views and where he could do the most damage to the U.S. and world economies.

His theory of negotiation was that to get to yes, you first had to say no.

The World Trade Organization is the worst organization ever created!" Trump said.

The September 5, 2017, draft letter to the South Korean president withdrawing from the trade agreement.

There was a single argument he made, Clapper said, that the North Koreans had not pushed back on during his 2014 visit. The United States, he had argued, has no permanent enemies. Look, he said, we had a war with Japan and Germany but now are friends with both. We had a war with Vietnam but now we are friends. Clapper had recently visited Vietnam. Even after a full-scale war, peaceful coexistence was possible.

If Kushner could not find a Middle East peace plan, "nobody can," Trump said. Kushner didn't.

Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. So, have you given Kim too much power? I asked. Kim had said he wouldn't shoot more ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles).Because if he's defiant, if he shoots one of those ICBMs, what are you going to do sir? If he shoots, he shoots, Trump said.

I think we could be so rich," Trump said, "if we weren't stupid. We're being played [as] suckers, especially NATO." Collective defense was a sucker play.

But overlooked was that Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist. Threatening the volatile North Korean regime with nuclear weapons was unthinkable, but he had done it. It turned out to be only the beginning. The go-along, get-along presidency of the past was over.

dictate the terms of the relationship," Carl had instructed her, "or they do. You never want it to be them. Always make sure it's you.

They certainly seem enthusiastic, don't they?" Rick observed, coming up to lean against the window frame beside her. "What exactly did you say to them when you signed the contract?" "Only something about how much value I place on people adhering to the schedule they agree on." "You didn't bare your teeth or anything?" "Only in a smile." "Nice.

It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me-GC

Your objections. It's time to discuss what it's going to take to get you beneath me.

What else can I bargain with? You have everything." "Your time and attention are the two things you can leverage. I'll do anything for them.

You can't manage me, Lindsay. I'm more than happy to be the recipient of your persuasive skills, but not if you'll be pissed off when it doesn't get you what you want.

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

Yasser Arafat

No can always be changed to yes, but it's very hard to change yes to no.