Negotiations quotes:

Send

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. -- George P. Shultz
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie. -- Daniel Kahneman
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
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. -- George P. Shultz
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
I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. -- Robin Williams
We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate. -- Noam Chomsky
Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER! -- Omar Torrijos Herrera
Always go into meetings or negotiations with a positive attitude. Tell yourself you're going to make this the best deal for all parties. -- Natalie Massenet
You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted. -- Christopher Lloyd
I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way. -- Mika Brzezinski
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. -- Stan Musial
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence. -- Noam Chomsky
Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship. -- Hill Harper
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions. -- Pierce Brosnan
In the long term, Germany didn't need a finance minister who was absent during important negotiations in the European Council. But the chancellor strongly encouraged me to stay. And everything did work out for the best in the end. -- Wolfgang Schauble
Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. -- Cedric Richmond
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade. -- Paul Cellucci
Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids. -- Clive Owen
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight. -- Evgeny Morozov
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace. -- Yitzhak Rabin
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers. -- Mercy Otis Warren
Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move. -- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine. -- Mahmoud Abbas
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support. -- Noam Chomsky
All friendships are negotiations of power. -- Holly Black
Terrorism and negotiations simply don't go together. -- Moshe Arens
Donald Trump knows how to use leverage in negotiations. -- Rudy Giuliani
We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations. -- Barack Obama
The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal. -- Yitzhak Rabin
During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones. -- Alan Sugar
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near. -- Donna Karan
Only 1 in 13 participants in peace negotiations since 1992 has been a woman. -- Zainab Salbi
Jihad and the rifle alone. NO negotiations, NO conferences and NO dialogue -- Sheikh Abdullah
The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. -- Yanis Varoufakis
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. -- Rumi
I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result -- Aitzaz Ahsan
The distance separating the statute and constitutionality is so abysmal that negotiations are impossible. -- Mariano Rajoy
People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated. -- Ivanka Trump
--
I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement. -- Harold MacMillan
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations. -- Golda Meir
It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations. -- Richard Shelby
I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive. -- David Shapiro
The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done. -- Alva Myrdal
Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history. -- Chris Christie
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman. -- Tamara Mellon
Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks. -- Akbar Ganji
If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations. -- Robin Williams
If I'm the British prime minister I won't be dictated to on the timetable or the manner of the negotiations. -- Michael Gove
M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. -- Sam Altman
No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me. -- Aldrich Ames
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets. -- Maria Callas
I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations. -- Safak Pavey
You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money. -- Bill Maher
If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations. -- David Cone
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite. -- Mark Teixeira
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other date? -- Pepe Eliaschev
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
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries. -- Anna Lindh
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks. -- Vladimir Putin
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
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict. -- Brent Scowcroft
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender. -- Peter Pace
KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the company, we're trying a more personal approach. -- Bruce Friedrich
It's important in our talks with Abbas to hear how women are represented in peace negotiations, how Palestine views the position of women and how resources are distributed. -- Margot Wallstrom
The Washington Nationals"? unexpected deal for free agent pitcher Max Scherzer is worth $210 million over seven years, according to two people with direct knowledge of the negotiations... -- Max Scherzer
There is no doubt in my mind. If there had been no assassination, we probably would have moved into negotiations leading to a normalisation of relations with Cuba. -- William Attwood
The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights. -- Hassan Nasrallah
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
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family. -- Kurt Overhardt
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
The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day. -- Barton Gellman
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products. -- Thabo Mbeki
We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations. -- Chen Shui-bian
We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it. -- Hanan Ashrawi
Using human rights commitments more effectively, either as part of negotiations in the WTO or as part of the trade policy review process, poses issues of equality in a practical venue. -- Mary Robinson
I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom. -- Giuliana Sgrena
Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while... It destroys before negotiations! -- Israelmore Ayivor
If the EU doesnÂ?'t want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides donÂ?t need to waste their time with negotiations. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we have now make non-violence the only option to planetary annihilation. -- Madeline Taylor
[A]s they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion....Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.' -- Jimmy Fallon
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
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. -- Oriana Fallaci
As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. -- George J. Mitchell
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
We've made clear our view, which is we support the Russian proposal. It's within the context of the EU diplomacy aimed at getting Iran to re-suspend its enrichment activities and return to negotiations. -- Joseph Adam Ereli
I did put together the coalition to impose sanctions. I actually started the negotiations that led to the nuclear agreement, sending some much my closest aides to begin the conversations with the Iranians. -- Hillary Clinton
Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations. -- Bill Bryson
We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice. -- Mahmoud Abbas
In 2002 the [George] Bush administration effectively put an end to negotiations of an agreement which would have established inspection procedures to ensure or to monitor compliance with the existing legal ban on biological weapons. -- John Burroughs
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine. -- Adolf Hitler
NVC can be effectively applied at all levels of communication and in diverse situations: intimate relationships, families, schools, organizations and institutions, therapy and counseling, diplomatic and business negotiations, disputes and conflicts of any nature. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
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
Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations. -- Laura Wasser
Let every girl, let every woman, let every mother here [in Israel]-and there in my country [Egypt]-know we shall solve all our problems through negotiations around the table rather than starting war. -- Anwar Sadat
We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new? -- Susan Sontag
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
When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border. -- Leonard Woodcock
After explaining why you're in trouble, ask the creditor if the company would be willing to accept a smaller amount. Start negotiations at about 30% of the total amount due, with the end goal of paying 50%. -- Jean Chatzky

Send