Quotes About Concessions

My ideal - and here, the sky is the limit - is to attract foreign investment via concessions.

In trying to remove from Christianity everything that could possibly be objected to in the name of science, in trying to bribe off the enemy by those concessions which the enemy most desires, the apologist has really abandoned what he started out to defend.

A belligerent will eschew concessions in the face of bad news when it thinks the adversary will not credibly commit to a war-ending commitment, and if the belligerent has some hope of eventually winning the war at an acceptable cost in relation to the stakes at hand.

There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

It is hardly surprising that working class movements in many countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found a memorable precedent, and some winning rhetoric, in the ancient story of how the concerted action of the Roman people wrung concessions from the hereditary patrician aristocracy and secured full political rights for the plebeians. Nor is it surprising that early trades unions could look to the plebeian walkouts as a model for a successful strike.

This is the Middle East, George, where one-sided concessions don't build trust. They build the demand for the next concessions.

UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL DRIVERS OF CHANGE (and base your plan on them) PREPARE A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT YOUR STRATEGY THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET STARTED (and don't make concessions for a quiet life) STRENGTHEN THE DELIVERY CHAIN (don't think you can get away without doing so

The second factor that led to the Roman society's ability to organize collectively in the face of threat was the internal situation, to include such factors as the family, tradition, obedience, spirituality, incentives and concessions. It was a combination of these factors that helped the society overcome an unjust political and social structure and band together in the face of threat.

No vale la pena tener una reforma si se obtiene haciendo tantas concesiones que acaban por condenarla al fracaso.