Negotiation Quotes And Sayings

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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

“The correct strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreign clients is a Japanese strategy: ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefully feel for pressure points. If an impasse is reached, don’t pressure. Suggest a recess or another meeting.”
– John L. Graham

“A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.”
– Eric Hoffer

“Prepare by knowing your walk away [conditions] 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.”
– Keiser

“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

“Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”
– Harold Macmillan

“Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.”
– Mandela Nelson

“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 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

“You’re in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.”
– Peace Pilgrim

“Buying is cheaper than asking.”
– german proverb

“A miser and a liar bargain quickly.”
– Greek Proverb

“The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.”
– japanese Proverb

“We’re eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.”
– Dean Rusk

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

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

“It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.”
– Condoleezza Rice

“I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.” Sassoon, Siegfried
– Siegfried Sassoon

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

“There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.” Streep, Meryl
– Meryl Streep

“The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.” Proverb, Japanese
– japanese Proverb

“The fellow who says he’ll meet you halfway usually thinks he’s standing on the dividing line.”
– Orlando A. Battista

“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

“Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.”
– Lord Chandos

“Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.”
– Nelson Mandela

“My father said: ‘You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals.’”
– J. Paul Getty

“There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.”
– Jose Maria Aznar

“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years. ”
– Kim Dae Jung

“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 A. Kissinger

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