Negotiation Quotes · Page 34

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

— Charlie Munger

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

— Clay Shirky

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Andrew Cuomo

“I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is…

— Terry Pratchett

Conflict is good in a negotiation process... it's the clash of two ideas, which then, all being well, produces a third idea.

— Luke Roberts

You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

— Ayrton Senna

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands…

— Giuliana Sgrena

I've been asked to write a book several times; I've had several publishers come to me and offer me book deals. Especially…

— Mike Portnoy

The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future…

— Iain Sinclair

“I was twenty-eight years old and I'd been around the block enough to know that sooner or later every romance turns into…

— James Whitfield Thomson

When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant…

— Amos Oz

I think Barack Obama had the right idea [on negotiations with enemies], and the bottom line is that of course there have…

— Hillary Clinton

I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited…

— Holly Black

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,…

— Charles Handy

What deal is [Maxine Waters] talking about? [Rex] Tillerson's done a lot of deals. [Donald] Trump's done a lot of deals, but…

— Rush Limbaugh

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you…

— Oscar Munoz

“What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?”

— Eugene H. Peterson

Compromise is necessary ... so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have…

— Charles de Lint

With 'Deal Or No Deal,' I could have gone on there and walked away with a pound. So winning that money felt…

— Naughty Boy

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists…

— Howard Raiffa

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang,…

— Anonymous

I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

— Cleve Jones

I like to be a part of my deal. I like to be directly in communication with all my brand deals, the…

— Sean O'Malley

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is…

— Nick Rahall

Finding compromise and working towards common goals are the things that I that I want to continue to be a part of,…

— Laphonza Butler

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten…

— Rita Mae Brown

“The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.”

— Richard Holbrooke

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I did put together the coalition to impose sanctions. I actually started the negotiations that led to the nuclear agreement, sending some…

— Hillary Clinton

Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.

— Amy Hill

Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.

— Christopher Voss

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can…

— Richard M. Nixon

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is…

— Lois Wyse

“You gave me two alternatives that you could live with, and I chose the one that I could live with. That's how…

— Stephenie Meyer

“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the…

— Michael Wolff

I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is…

— Richard Branson

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.”

— Steve Aylett