Quotes About Negotiation

for sixty-one days." I began questioning the makeup of the negotiation team I'd brought with me to convince the chief of the Northern Cheyenne tribe that he should allow my daughter to be married at Crazy Head Springs. "Don't call the White Buffalo a joint; it's the nerve center of the reservation." My undersheriff, Victoria Moretti

My solution to the problem [of North Vietnam] would be to tell them frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

If you say something over and over and over, maybe they'll give in to shut you up.

Barbie smiled. 'But that's business,' she declared. 'Sometimes people are nice and sometimes nasty. In business you have to take the rough with the smooth

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

I realised that if we were not in the E.U., there were people in the E.U. who were also members of NATO that would veto our joining NATO.

I cannot support an indefinite backstop arrangement where the E.U. holds a veto over our ability to exit.

We are seeing a lot of cases where the startups are writing the term sheet, dictating the terms, selling common stock instead of preferred stock, where they don't give the investor veto rights or board seat or privileges, and they are really asking the investor -- why should I take your money when there is other money available.

As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

In my role as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization and founder and CEO of my own lifestyle brand, I've had a lot of practice negotiating.

Sometimes you hear that many politicians vote for a bill in various forms before they vote against it, or vice versa. The conflict, negotiation, and eventual compromise involved in this process form the essence of the democratic process.

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

I think people forget that bipartisanship is really the burden of the victor, not the loser.

Oftentimes, the best negotiations result in a deal that benefits both parties. There are times when you simply want to go for the jugular, but often, you want the other person to feel pleased with the outcome, even if you are the clear victor.

Diplomacy between a powerful, victorious army and a side that's losing doesn't really work well.

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

The macro of any negotiation is that the only time you can cut a deal is when both sides are hurting. If either side is - is well and feeling happy, you can't get a deal. Then they go for victory. You need - if they're willing to settle for things the other side can live with, it's because they're hurting a little bit.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.