Quotes About Negotiation

Until I come up with something better, the hammer defense." "Huh?" "Classic legal strategy, Nash. If the law is on your side, hammer the law. If the facts are on your side, hammer the facts. If neither is on your side, hammer the table.

We need peacemakers, not peacekeepers.

She insists on negotiating, and she's not in a position to negotiate.

Almost universally, non-BPs say they feel manipulated by the BPs in their lives. If the non-BP doesn't do what the BP wants them to do, the BP may threaten

Generally, "I" statements make people less defensive and more open to exploring a solution to the problem.

We were both straining to bend and compromise for the other. But that was what marriage was about, wasn't it?

I wasn't sure how I could say no." "No is the easiest word there is. Children learn to talk by saying no.

He kept his emotions locked away behind a wall, which made him a wonderful negotiator.

Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

War is the statesman's game

It is better that we gain what we demand by a process of negotiation which would occupy twenty years, than that by communicating a sudden shock to the interests of those who are the depositaries and dependents of power we should incur the calamity which their revenge might inflict upon us by giving the signal of . . . war.

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

As he had demonstrated with the Soviets, Baker recognized that the person across the table had his or her own domestic politics to worry about and he made a point of looking for ways to satisfy those needs while still getting what he wanted.

Two great critiques of modernity by biblical scholars are Walter Brueggemann's Texts Under Negotiation and Walter Wink's The Bible in Human Transformation.

his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

It was a sixty-five, thirty-five split. That percentage isn't something I'd kill for.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,

and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”

Ephron answered Abraham,

“Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”

And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”