Hostage Quote by Christopher Voss Download Open image “I wanted to be a hostage negotiator.” — Christopher Voss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hostage Wanted
In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a journalist. The other thing I wanted to be was a spy. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
'Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?' — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
There's great power in deference. You ask somebody 'what' or 'how' questions. People love to be asked how to do something. They feel powerful,… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
Every job that you take, the term that you should always include is, 'How can I be involved in the strategic projects that are… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
What drives you? What's your motivation? That's not emotion. That's passion. It's a different word. — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Voss Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
In theory, when you're working with a record label, you're just borrowing their money. And that's basically how the record industry works, right? It's… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
