Quotes About Negotiation

have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

A man walked into a shop and asked, "How much are your eggs?" He said "£1.40 a dozen". He then asked: "How much are your cracked ones?" He said: "35p". He said: "Crack us four dozen."

There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

When sincerity fails, the offer of money usually works.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.