Quotes About Negotiation

Russia does not want confrontation of any kind. And we will not take part in any kind of 'holy alliance.'

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

It would be time for you to start drawing up peace treaties with your former enemies.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided." "Why don't you take turns?" "It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight.

just take the deal and get on

In other words, the Germans were continuing to place a large bet on Bolshevism, while at the same time containing it and extracting advantage.

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

A good general attack can be made by talking to your opponent about his own job, in the character of the kind of man who always tries to know more about your own profession than you know yourself.

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.

If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

What's the big picture?" Husain Haqqani asked Pasha during this period. "We're a small country," he answered. "They are the big ones. We have to keep our pride. We have to outmaneuver them. It's all about being smart.