Quotes About Bargaining

will is a bargaining situation, not an organ.

How much are you willing to pay?" she asked. "Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous—some families would put him up for a week for a single coin. "Half a doubloon a day," she said. "No, you see, the idea behind bargaining is that you ask for a larger amount." Apparently, he understood sarcasm just fine.

Elimane had taught the little family to make a point of memorizing the current prices of all sort of commonly needed goods and services; asking the price was essentially announcing your lack of street smarts and pleading to be overcharged.

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

Karigan didn't think the sisters had gotten the better end of the deal, but this wasn't one of her father's bargaining sessions.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

My trees, they said, you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Where is love? How do you know that there is love? The first test of love is that it knows no bargaining. So long as you see a man love another only to get something from him, you know that that is not love; it is shopkeeping.

Like most Dilliwalas, I'm an ace at bargaining. I have spent hours doing that at Janpath and Sarojini Market.

What else can you tell us about this batna, Surendranath?" "I learnt it from English traders in Surat," said the befuddled Surendranath, "It stands for Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement.

Stets besteche mit der höchsten Summe, die du zu zahlen bereit bist, auf der niedersten Ebene des Befehls. Groll ist Goldes wert, wenn Treue zum Verkauf steht.

Research your secret options thoroughly. Or else don't begin the negotiation because you have not prepared properly.

If one side says, "We can only go as low as $36,000 on this car," you can say, "I can't go higher than $30,000. How am I supposed to come up with the $36,000?" And just see what they say. Ask "open-ended questions" starting with "how" or "what." Ask a lot of them. Be prepared in advance with your "how" questions.

Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced the bargaining power of whichever spouse is more interested in continuing the relationship. And the breakup of such marriages has caused pain for many families.

Ajax want to get as much as they can for me, while Spurs want to pay as little as possible.

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.

I'm not big with negotiating.

Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.

People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money.