Negotiation Quotes - Page 3

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Samuel Beckett

Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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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

People, Rooms, Committees

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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.

Robert Foster Bennett

Kids, Technique, Buttons

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Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to a deal, don't back out of it unless the other party fails to deliver as promised. Your handshake is your bond. As far as I'm concerned, a handshake is worth more than a signed contract. As an entrepreneur, a reputation for integrity is your most valuable commodity. If you try to put something over on someone, it will come back to haunt you.

Victor Kiam

Integrity, Party, Dirty

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Never cut what you can untie.

Joseph Joubert

Life, Cutting, Interesting

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.86

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Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Keys, Support, Progress

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Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

John Bolton

Technique, Use, Advantage

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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Shirley Chisholm

Integrity, Patriotic, Power

Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.124, Take Root Media

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

Charles Caleb Colton

Conquer, Grants, Refuse

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.

Henry A. Kissinger

Trying, Succeed, Sides

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

William Shakespeare

Virtue, You Like It, Peacemaker

'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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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

Integrity, Sacrifice, Tricks

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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

Honore de Balzac

Moving, Men, Wish

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Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.

Ryan Bingham

Stars, Mistake, Moving

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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Francis Bacon

Business, Men, Looks

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.369

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Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

Brad Katsuyama

Realizing, Certain, Willing

Source: www.businessinsider.com

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

Richard M. Nixon

Moving, Eras, Conflict

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Know what you are talking about.

Pope John Paul II

Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Winston Churchill

Funny, Humorous, Fighting

Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

Inspirational, Funny, Strong Women

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

Ivanka Trump

People, Underestimate, Fine

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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 Fenelon

Funny, Humorous, People

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

Amarillo Slim

Gambling, Competition, Conflict

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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard M. Nixon

Peace, Military, War

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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Abraham Lincoln

Neighbors And Friends, Neighbors Friends, Lawyer

"Notes for a Law Lecture," ca. 1 July 1850

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