Top 142 Bargaining Quotes & Sayings

We didn't see [the NBA lockout] as a victory at all. It was far from what we set it out to accomplish in bargaining, but I thought it was a fair compromise.

Celebrity is currency, it's a good bargaining tool. It helps you get better service.

I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.

Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets the legal definition of fault. On the other hand, it has increased the bargaining power of the person who is willing to leave.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

Bargaining has neither friends nor relations.

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you have a poor relationship with workers.

All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.

Always wear what makes you comfortable. And when you are out shopping, make sure your bargaining skills are on point.

Farm jobs are not a bargaining chip.

In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.

Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

Our history tells us that public institutions evolve through a process of bargaining between the state and groups in society.

The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements.

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.

I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.

Like most Dilliwalas, I'm an ace at bargaining. I have spent hours doing that at Janpath and Sarojini Market.

Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

You can much better have an influence on the debate when you sit at the bargaining table and you can give input.

So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.

Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.

The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights.

Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement to this foundation. Free collective bargaining is good for the entire Nation. In my view, it is the only alternative to State regulation of wages and prices - a path which leads far down the grim road of totalitarianism. Those who would destroy or further limit the rights of organized labor - those who would cripple collective bargaining or prevent organization of the unorganized - do a disservice to the cause of democracy.

I was never presented with the details as far as the collective bargaining system is Greece. I am in favor of a normal system without giving the labour minister the right to extend the results to extend the result of the collective bargaining to the whole of the real economy. The government has to make sure that the results will not harm the situation of small and medium enterprises.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

After my marriage, I mellowed down a little as I stopped bargaining with vegetable vendors on streets, but otherwise I am Monisha in real life.

I will not use people's lives as bargaining chips.

Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.

Both sides go the bargaining table holding cards quite close to the chest and bluffing like crazy, .

The market's been soft, .. and I think that's mostly a result of the new provisions in the collective bargaining agreement.

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Housing is a human right, not a bargaining chip to let fall between bureaucratic cracks.

If I rob a gas station, I'm going to get 15 years. If I steal $400 million on Wall Street, I start plea-bargaining.