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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
Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent. -- Marvin Gaye
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. -- Dean Acheson
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing. -- Harri Holkeri
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
Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence. -- Amit Kalantri
Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements. -- Barry Boehm
Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development. -- Nelson Mandela
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree -- Dean Acheson
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks. -- Akbar Ganji
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
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon. -- Victor Kiam
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. -- Eric Hoffer
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. -- Marvin Gaye
We were not born to sue, but to command. -- William Shakespeare
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- Albert Einstein
You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. -- Shirley Chisholm
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? -- Felix Dennis
Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation. -- Richard M. Nixon
Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. -- Carrie Fisher
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. -- John F. Kennedy
We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them. -- Ram Dass
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. -- George Bernard Shaw
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. -- Dale Carnegie
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. -- Meryl Streep
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. -- Tom Metzger
I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act. -- Thom Mayne
When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position. -- John Maynard Keynes
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. -- Richard Holbrooke
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. -- Howard Baker
I think each negotiation should be based on what's the best decision - taking everything into account, not taking one thing into account. -- Tony La Russa
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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
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
The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it. -- Eli Broad
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism. -- Nhat Hanh
Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes -- Michael Scott
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
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. -- Harold Wilson
For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile. -- Sunil Mittal
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
The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. -- Howard Baker
You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win. -- Felix Dennis
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. -- Hideki Tojo
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home, not dad. -- James Levine
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. -- Siegfried Sassoon
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours. -- Andy Warhol
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. -- Max Keiser
The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on. -- Iain Sinclair
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. -- Ai Weiwei
Flattery is the infantry of negotiation. -- Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Each party should gain from the negotiation. -- Dale Carnegie
Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. -- Claire Danes
You need a team for war, not for negotiation. -- Amit Kalantri
These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. -- George W. Bush
Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant. -- Toba Beta
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses. -- Ian Dunbar
Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns. -- Joss Whedon
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses -- Ian Dunbar
"¦there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old"¦ -- John Irving
What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender. -- Neal A. Maxwell
The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. -- Donald Trump
No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation. -- Saul Alinsky
The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation . -- Leigh Steinberg
I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. -- Brad Garrett
To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation. -- Anita Brookner
But he's mad, completely mad, and he turns his wives into golems. He needs killing, not negotiation. -- T. Kingfisher
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. -- John Gregory Dunne
But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. -- John Allen Fraser
I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation. -- Bill Watterson
Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed. -- Christine Lagarde
Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not. -- E. L. James
It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. -- Diane Setterfield
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them. -- Hjalmar Schacht
The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'. -- Ernest Bevin
Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants. -- Jacob Lew
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool. -- Michael Gurian
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool. -- Michael Gurian
The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler. -- Brad Katsuyama
Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
There's just something fascinating to me about watching a business interaction unfold, and the negotiation. And how everything is negotiable in life. -- Kether Donohue
There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
[Hillary Clinton] worked a tough negotiation with nations around the world to eliminate the Iranian nuclear weapons program without firing a shot. -- Tim Kaine
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians. -- George W. Bush
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal -- Paul Gauguin
The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain. -- Bill McKibben
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. -- Umberto Eco
No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence. -- Nelson Mandela
[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual. -- Edward Said
If you're a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism. -- Nhat Hanh
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
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
We shall continue, in this era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms and to reduce the danger of confrontation between the great powers. -- Richard M. Nixon
Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from Feminism, the Body, and the Machine) -- Wendell Berry
Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries. -- William J. Duiker
To win a negotiation you have to show you're willing to walk away. And the best way to show you're willing to walk away is to walk away. -- Michael Weston
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art -- Wynton Marsalis
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
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
The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques. -- Howard Raiffa
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view. -- Stephen Kinzer
Every encounter with a woman must be viewed as a negotiation, ... the difference being instead of coaxing them off rooftops, you're coaxing them into romance. And remember, the negotiator is always in control. -- Christopher Paul Curtis
When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war. -- Bertrand Russell
Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it. -- Nora Ephron
The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals. -- Harry Martinson
[Lyndon Baines Johnson ] technique in negotiation would be that he'd lean into you and take away your personal space, it didn't matter your party affiliation when he was trying to convince you of something. -- Jay Roach
If the conflict is about the size of Israel, then long and difficult negotiations can eventually resolve the problem. But if the conflict is about the existence of Israel, then serious negotiation is impossible. -- Bernard Lewis
Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick. -- Glen Duncan

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