Best 160 quotes in «negotiation quotes» category

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.

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

Did we get anything like the sort of reform that would make the EU work better? No. Not even close. And worse, even with the certainty of a UK referendum following the negotiation, it is clear that there was no appetite amongst European leaders for anything more than a few minor concessions.

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

Here's how the court put it, and all judges agreed to this. The court said: "There exists and obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations under nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

I cannot go to elections with an open stomach. If you want to negotiate we have to conclude it before the elections. I cannot just start the negotiations [with Palestinians] saying we are ready to do this and that and not having any reply.

I did put together the coalition to impose sanctions. I actually started the negotiations that led to the nuclear agreement, sending some much my closest aides to begin the conversations with the Iranians.

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

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

If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons.

Kurds are going to have to strike a bargain with Bashar Assad that will keep them in the Syrian state and under some kind of Syrian authority, so that they can have the protection of international legitimacy and the Syrian army against the Turks. How they can bargain with Assad is unclear. What kind of negotiations they can come to, unclear. We will see whether they get something like the Kurds in Iraq, which is a large measure of autonomy, or something less than that. That will be one of the big negotiations to come out of this process.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

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

Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

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

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

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

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together.

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

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

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

There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.

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

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Trump said we got snookered. That those agreements like NAFTA were the worst agreements ever and suggested that our trade negotiators were snookered by these smart negotiators from Mexico or Africa. It is laughable. I have watched these trade negotiations. We got what we wanted.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations.

We have worked to make our trade negotiations more transparent and to negotiate value-based agreements. We have listened to concerns, for example by carrying out a reform of the investment protection system and setting out to create a multilateral investment court. Our world is rapidly changing and this creates a multitude of concerns.

While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.