Negotiation Quotes And Sayings

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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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“If you cant go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant

“Here’s the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That’s the true business precept.”
– Charles Dickens

“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

“If you don’t get what you want, its a sign either that you did not seriously want it or that you tried to bargain over the price.”
– Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Who makes a timid request invites denial”
– Eneca

“It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Successful negotiators have formed the habit of doing those things unsuccessful negotiators dislike doing and will not do.”
– Dr. Jim Hennig

“Negotiation is like an athletic contest; Momentum is paramount!!”
– Dr. Jim Hennig

“Do not make a counter-offer to an unrealistic offer.”
– Dr. Jim Hennig

“Do not underestimate the power of SILENCE in a negotiation. Silence is a great tool of the skilled negotiator.”
– Dr. Jim Hennig

“We have two ears and one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”
– Diogenes

“Always get to know the other party. Never negotiate with a stranger.”
– Somers White

“Either we’re going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.”
– Tom Metzger

“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of a diplomat.”
– Robert Estabrook

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun that you can with a kind word alone.”
– Al Capone

“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
– Albert Einstein

“Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues; the difference between the two being that the first is practiced on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.”
– George Mikes

“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.”
– Winston Churchill

“In a negotiation, he who cares less wins.”
– Unknown

“I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause.”
– Al Medwin

“Its just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.”
– Peter Costello

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