Quotes About Negotiation

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

Nothing personal, it's just business

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

If you are a musician and you dont show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

You make deals in business and in government if you're smart.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.

In Business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

There could, in principle, be an institution that looked like what we call science but in which there was no genuine responsiveness to the world. Experiments would be no more than expensive PR exercises, and theories would change via a process of negotiation between factions. How do we know that our own science is not like this?

They worked out a new deal between another group of investors (headed by John Peirce) and the Plymouth Company, which owned the land.

David Frost: It's all right. He wants me to do this. To finish him off. John Birt: What? David Frost: He wants the wilderness.

Almost any established decision procedure is better than a resort to force; for when force is used, people get hurt and the desire for retaliation is likely to lead to more violence. Moreover, most decision procedures produce results at least as beneficial and just as a resort to force.

The most effective nos are the least complicated. The more details you supply, the more likely the other person will challenge you or try to change your mind.