Quotes About Negotiation

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

I believe that Jews and Arabs can live together. It's not an easy thing but I believe we can reach an agreement.

Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

One gift, one time--that's bribery. Lots of gifts over a long time--that's politics.''-- Roland Vanatua, from The Coup

I've given them an offer which they could hardly refuse.