Negotiation Quotes · Page 21

A good compromise, a good piece of...

— Barbara Jordan

Fight as hard as you can, and then understand there's going to have to be some amount of reasonable compromise.

— Andrew Cuomo

“Come! Let us make that bargain. Think of me at my best, if circumstances should ever part us!”

— Charles Dickens

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

— Karl Albrecht

I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an…

— Jeremy Corbyn

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not…

— Wilbur Ross

I've been making deals all my life.

— Donald Trump

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

— Saul Bellow

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

— Christopher Voss

You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money.

— Bill Maher

MPs should be able to debate, amend and approve a mandate for the negotiation of any trade agreement before talks start, based…

— Barry Gardiner

“The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other…

— William Voegeli

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

— Howard Raiffa

A two-state solution cannot be promised without having negotiations first.

— Benny Gantz

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

— Ivanka Trump

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

— Nick Foles

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all…

— Robert Fritz

We'll look at a bunch of deals that are being offered to us, and we decide where to go and continue on…

— Josh Silver

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

— Toba Beta

“Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person.”

— Catherine Lacey

The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a…

— Paul Clark

A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Anonymous

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

— Abraham Lincoln