Negotiation Quotes - Page 10

• Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

  Mark McCormack

  Inspirational, Tools, Reactions

  Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.117, Profile Books

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• During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.

  Alan Sugar

  Business, People, Comfort

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• Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Mad, Opportunist

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.48, City Lights Books

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• Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Hate, Fighting, Expectations

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• What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.

  Maria Shriver

  Sex, Battle, Loud

  Maria Shriver (2009). “The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

  Ron Willingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Divorce

  Ron Willingham (2009). “Integrity Selling for the 21st Century: How to Sell the Way People Want to Buy”, p.13, Crown Business

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• Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.

  John McCain

  Couple, Agreement, Next Week

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• Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Two

  George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• My heart is a bargain today. Will you take it?

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Humorous, Heart

  W. C. Fields (1970). “I Never Met a Kid I Liked”

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• If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

  William Safire

  Funny, War, Humorous

  "ESSAY; Reading Saddam's Mind" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1990.

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• To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Problem, Resolve, Approach

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

  Osman Baydemir

  War, Talking, Turkeys

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• When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.

  Yul Vazquez

  Mom, Children, Said

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• To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Military, War, Doubt

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.71, Lantern Books

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• I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Israel, Political

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• The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

  Golda Meir

  Peace, War, Alternatives

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• One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Views, Years, Organization

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• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Office, People

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• Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Germany, Colony, Ifs

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" by the International Military Tribunal, Vol. 5, (p. 134), 1947.

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• In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Exercise, Self

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• 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

  Book, India, May

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.57

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• Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

  Barack Obama

  Peace, War, Believe

  Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel, Jerusalem International Convention Center, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 21, 2013.

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• One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.

  John Ashbery

  Grateful, Writing, Ideas

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• We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

  Wade Guyton

  Fighting, Technology, Parent

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