Quotes About Negotiation

No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.

There is a homely adage which runs, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Do not hit, at all, if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.

speak softly and carry a big stick

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

If somebody does something Mr. Trump doesn't like, I do everything in my power to resolve it to Mr. Trump's benefit. If you do something wrong, I'm going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I'm not going to let go until I'm finished.

The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

You can't negotiate in public. People won't make concessions in public. They will do that in private. Like sausage making, you have to do it behind closed doors.

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.

All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

One cannot negotiate under fire.

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.