Quotes About Negotiation

Luckily, American politicians tend to be cheaply bought and we have been able to outbid the Kaiser.

You'll give me whatever I ask for? Say it again.' Yurga smacked his lips, closed his mouth and wished he was agile enough to kick himself in the arse.

Peace talks are a market. A country fair. So that some people can be bought, others must be sold. Thus the world runs its course. The point is not to pay too high a price . . .' 'And not to sell oneself too cheaply,' finished the elf, without raising his head.

Conozco algo la política, sé que tiene dos fines alternativos: uno es el entendimiento, el otro el conflicto. El entendimiento se alcanza cuando uno de los bandos finge que se traga las trolas que le cuenta el otro bando.

make it a practice to separate the person from the problem.

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

If a person seems inflexible, yield, then slip in sideways and get what you want.

To remain pure a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

Compromise - Lowering my standards. So you can meet them.

this was how women fought. With civilized words carrying poison.

At 10 A.M. on the Friday after the election in 2010, David Cameron's team met in his room at the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel. Cameron was clear that, unable to form a majority government, they had to begin talks with the Lib Dems about forming a coalition. But in a rare example of strategic discord, George Osborne disagreed.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

What is astonishing is that globalised technology, like Whatsapp and Viber, really gives a lot of leeway to negotiating spaces and to keeping one's identity. So people are able to be more receptive as a gay community to be part of an environment that is going to challenge the law.

We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.

Jeremy Corbyn has shown no ability to provide solutions for Brexit whatsoever.

Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.

Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not, if a woman goes in to ask for a raise, she'll get it. But she's thinking, 'Do I deserve it? I've got to give a list of why I deserve it.' Whereas a man will just go in and ask for a raise. It's so scary.