Quotes About Negotiation

Ideology is dead..Politics is about barter..you give some, take back a lot more. Its business at the end of the day. - Ravi Nehra

Not another boring diplomatic meeting.

I know," he said, looking down his nose at the SandWing. "Obviously I figured that out. That's the only reason I'm agreeing to this." "Oh," Qibli said with a rakish grin. "I thought perhaps it was because I'm so charming and convincing.

So let me get this straight," she said. "You're telling me nothing about why you're here, but you expect me to bring you into our kingdom and buy you a drink. NightWings really do think highly of themselves, don't they?" "What if I bought you that drink?" he offered.

That's …" Morrowseer paused and regarded him for a moment. "Aggravating. I don't do business with sniveling dragonets." "Then you're in luck," said Deathbringer. "I am firmly anti-sniveling myself.

Conflict is nothing more than an anxious situation that needs to be resolved.

At times, being assertive does involve disagreeing with others; however, that disagreement can be done in a way that is not needlessly confrontational and painful.

The cause of human conflict is simple: one person dehumanizes another. One side sees the other side as unworthy. As long as people who disagree perceive each other this way, even the simplest details cannot be negotiated. But let each person bring to the other the attitude of respect and acceptance, and even difficult details can be resolved.

Nothing moves in India without a bribe, and bribes had been demanded of me in China, Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, and Turkey. As I was seated in a cubicle in the immigration office of Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, a frowning man in a uniform loomed over me and said, "Give me what I want or I put you on the next plane to Kuala Lumpur." (I gave him $120.) I'd had my wits about me in those places.

We must at all costs avoid saying no because people prefer those who say yes, and this allows us to survive in hostile territory.

diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Those who insist on transferring the Iranian nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council have received an additional argument for doing so.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.