Top 272 Negotiation Quotes & Sayings

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion.

No issue can be negotiated unless you first have the clout to compel negotiation.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.

The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in.

To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

What I really think of myself as is a person who's great at negotiation coaching and consulting.

I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.

In a job negotiation, the implementation of that deal is your success that also causes the company to succeed.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

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.

There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.

The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as is his wont, and essentially linked the call to Taiwan with a whole series of things he doesn't like about Chinese economic and foreign policies and implied that the U.S. views of the status of Taiwan are now up for negotiation, that he wants them to be part of a broader negotiation with China about a whole series of economic and foreign policy issues. So, we just don't really know what exactly they're planing to do with this.

True negotiation takes place when each side respects the other, and their point of view, and enters into the discussion positively. If you are determined that your solution, and your particular solution only, is the correct one - to be imposed on the other side if necessary - that is not negotiation; it is dictatorship

Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases the likelihood of negotiation success. 2) Support your desired outcome with data that points to its reasonableness. 3) Writing down your key points in advance - and practicing them - enables you to stay focused on what's most important and avoid going off on tangents. 4) Err on the side of asking for more, rather than less [of what you really want]. 5) Be willing to walk away.

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

Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development.

What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.

There are a lot of things behind a negotiation process.

[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.

Emotions aren't the obstacles to a successful negotiation; they are the means.

Our Second Amendment rights are not up for negotiation.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

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

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

Usually, even when a bill draws extreme opinions, there can be a process of expression and negotiation.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

It's very rare you get a director who's that invested in the actors. So yeah, when 'Little Fish' came around, there wasn't much negotiation!

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

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.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

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

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

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

Any negotiation involves compromise and no one will get everything they want.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Negotiation builds a team as well as a set of requirements.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

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

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.