Negotiation Quotes

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.

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

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

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

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

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

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.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

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

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

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

If you keep groaning, please do it to a rythmn I can dance to.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

A negotiator should observe everything. You must be part Sherlock Holmes, part Sigmund Freud.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.