A Quote by Felix Dennis

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

Felix Dennis

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Felix Dennis
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May 27, 1947 - June 22, 2014

The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.

Mason Cooley

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

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation.

Grace Paley

Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

Christine Lagarde

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

Leigh Steinberg

Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Gyorgy Konrad

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

Swami Vivekananda

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Colum McCann

The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.

Tom Rath

There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.

Etgar Keret

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Haruki Murakami

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

George Konrad

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

Charles Duhigg

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

Henry David Thoreau

1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

Jack Nicklaus

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.

Duane Elgin

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