Negotiation Quotes

• 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
  • Power
  • Movement
  • Democratic

• 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
  • Rules
  • Emotions
  • Good Deal

• The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art

  

  Wynton Marsalis
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Way
  • Solve
  • Negotiation

• Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

  

  Miguel Sapochnik
  • Important
  • Compromise
  • Particular

• Life's a Negotiation!

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Life
  • Negotiation

• Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

  

  Caspar Weinberger
  • Trying
  • Foolish
  • Agreement

• Obviously, having served in wars myself, I'm eager to do everything possible to avoid them, but our military capability vis-a-vis a country like Iran is a major source of leverage in any negotiation that we should never, ever give up.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Military
  • Give Up
  • Wars

• The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

  

  Howard Baker
  • Difficult
  • Facts
  • Emotion

• Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Wife

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

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • Decide
  • Negotiation
  • Fellow

• I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Conversation
  • Negotiation
  • Apologizing

• There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba.

  

  William Attwood
  • Doubt
  • Relation
  • Assassination

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

  

  Michael Gove
  • Ministers
  • Negotiation

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