Negotiation Quotes
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What we are discussing is what we have to do, the very clear undertakings given by the European Council at a summit last December and again this June, to lead to an opening of negotiations on October 3rd. I will say that I am reasonably hopeful that this deadline can be met.
Jack Straw -
The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.
Lois Wyse
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If our expected partners in the negotiations in the framework of the road map do not uphold their commitments, we will preserve the Israeli interest in every way.
Ehud Olmert -
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.
Aldrich Ames -
The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about.
Dennis Hastert -
This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.
Jack Straw -
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.
Jack Straw -
I think we are making an assumption that that is the outcome of the negotiations. I think President Assad will be prepared to accept whatever the outcome of the intra-Syrian dialogue and the decision of the Syrian people is. But people are trying to decide and determine the outcome of the negotiation before even we agree to start the negotiations.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
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Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue
Abdullah Yusuf Azzam -
We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.
Vladimir Putin -
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.
William Winwood Reade -
I hope, but I can't predict, that the negotiations at the beginning of next week will be fruitful.
Jack Straw -
Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.
Barry Boehm -
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Emerson Spartz
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
William Shakespeare -
Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.
William Shakespeare -
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
Paul Gauguin -
The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.
Daniel Altman -
As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.
Sarah Gadon -
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.
Cecilia Malmstrom
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Three rules of good negotiation: 1. Know what the other party wants. 2. Listen carefully. 3. Don't let your emotions get in the way of a good deal.
Betty Liu -
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
Akbar Ganji -
We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.
Ben Wikler -
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
Martin Luther King, Jr.