Quotes of Negotiation - somelinesforyou

“ During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively. ”

- Brian Koslow

“ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations. ”

- Benjamin Netanyahu

“ Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. ”

- Isaac Goldberg

“ If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat. ”

- Marvin S. Levin

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

- Richard M. Nixon

“ Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. ”

- Harold Wilson

“ The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. ”

- Mark Twain

“ We waited too long to resolve this,... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down. ”

- Jeff Koons

“ Negotiations (on bases) are practically over. ”

- Traian Basescu

“ We finalized negotiations regarding the U.S. military facilities on the Black Sea coast and maybe in other areas of Romania. ”

- Traian Basescu

“ Diplomacy: lying in state. ”

- Oliver Herford

“ You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal. ”

- Unknown

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

- Benjamin Netanyahu

“ In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. ”

- Lincoln Chafee

“ I know of no diplomacy save that of truth. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain. ”

- Francois de Salignac Fenelon

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

- Ivan Goncharov

“ Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously. ”

- Lance Morrow

“ The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. ”

- Orlando A. Battista

“ We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ”

- Dean Rusk

“ Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ”

- Konrad Adenauer

“ We were not born to sue, but to command. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice. ”

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ Prepare by knowing your walk away and by building the number of variables you can work with during the negotiation… you need to have a walk away… a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents the least you will accept. Without one, you have no negotiating road map. ”

- Unknown

“ Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. ”

- Allen Boyd

“ I don't think that anybody has any patience left for the way the PLO has conducted itself,... We know now, because of the arms shipment, that there is a close association between all of that violence and what is happening within the ranks... and the leadership of the PLO. ”

- Tom Daschle
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