Quotes About Negotiation

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

The Circle had been less than thrilled by its choice, but we'd finally come to terms. As in, they were no longer trying to play Whac-A-Mole with my head. Only now they seemed to think they had the right to make sure that nobody else did, either. That was a problem, because the vampires felt the same way and the Senate didn't share well.

Look," I said, trying to reason with him despite extensive experience that this rarely worked. "This isn't a great time. I have my inauguration—" "Coronation." "—coming up

I'm not really crazy about all this tit-for-tat stuff. I'm always asked to be the one to first give up the tit.

Why should I let you take it?" "Because you owe me." "Why do I owe you?" "Because I put up with you.

Let's get something straight, MacKeltar. I am not going home with you. I am not going to bed with you, and I am not wasting one more moment arguing with you." "I promise not to mock you when you change your mind, lass.

I want purple trews, lass," Drustan called over the door. "No," she said irritably. "And a purple shirt.

Everything is negotiable if the correct pressure is applied.

Wars need rules!" "Wars need to be won!

Funny thing about payment is that it isn't the buyer of the goods or services that gets to set it. It's the seller. That's me.

How many other women have you brought back here—that you needed tampons for? Did I not rate tampons? Was I won so easily that you didn't have to bribe me with conveniences?

Bottom line is most of the world will push you as far as you let them. Barrons

Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.

if I could develop one new skill that would make a big difference in how most people communicate, it would be the skill of making a request.

En kärlek med villkor är ju handel.

There are ample signs that the two sides are simply using the lull in the fighting to re-arm and re-equip their forces to have another go at a war neither can ever win.

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.