Negotiation Quotes

Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses

No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.

There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

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

The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.

The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Donald Trump knows how to use leverage in negotiations.

How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual.

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

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

All friendships are negotiations of power.

The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.