Top 258 Negotiating Quotes & Sayings

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy.

I've been very successful at negotiating debates.

Achieving gender equality is about disrupting the status quo - not negotiating it.

The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.

The reason I started with prostitutes was solely to work on my negotiating skills. Once I mastered negotiating with naked women, dealing with Interscope was a piece of cake.

Negotiating with Iran and believing they will keep their word is naive at best.

I've been pretty good at negotiating.

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.

You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

I'm not big with negotiating.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians.

I got really good at negotiating from a place of weakness.

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life.

Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.

What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest.

We need to stand over our policies when negotiating a programme for government.

We'd be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he's negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.

On trade, our country is a disaster. We have political hacks. People that give money to politicians. That's how they get their jobs. We have the worst people negotiating our trade deals. We're going stop that. We're going to have the greatest business people in the world and we have them. We're going to have the greatest business people in the world negotiating our trade deals with China.

I always took note of them, because I think if you're in the black or brown body, you're negotiating them all the time. It's like women taking note of sexism. It's a kind of incoherency that you are constantly negotiating.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.

If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.

Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.

It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.

I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mothers condition.

America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.

We have people that are political hacks negotiating our trade deals.

We got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

India's difficulties in negotiating an FTA with both the ASEAN and E.U. are a reminder of the importance of multilateralism.

I've done a lot of deals, and I'm skilled at negotiating, managing personalities, and getting parties to the table.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating. It is not deal making. It's not.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

Negotiating with the Taliban must be done from a position of strength. Negotiating from a position of weakness would be a disaster.

Never fall in love with something when you're negotiating a price. Never decide you're going to buy something because you can't live without it. Negotiating to buy an item shouldn't be an emotional process.

In principle, there is nothing wrong with the United States negotiating directly with the Taliban.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Waging war is much more popular than negotiating, because there you need to compromise.

I'm a fan of Jay-Z, from the negotiating table to the booth.

The most important thing is that Milosevic agreed to sit at the negotiating table with the Kosovo Albanians

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.

I just don't want to get in a situation where I'm negotiating my health for money.

The art of negotiating is a learned skill. It is practiced and often honed in the marketplace as well as legislative bodies.

We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.