Negotiation Quotes

Most popular negotiation quotes

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way everyone believes that he has the biggest piece.

compromise

Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Necessity never made a good bargain.

necessity

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes both parties are more anxious to agree than disagree. - Dean Acheson quote.
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes both parties are more anxious to agree than disagree.

diplomacy

The ability to see the situation as the other side sees it is one of the most important skills a negotiator can possess.
The spider and the fly can't make a bargain.
— Jamaican proverb

proverbs

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
— Latin proverb

proverbs Latin proverbs gold

Better a friendly refusan than an unwilling promise.
— German proverb

German proverbs proverbs

Don't shake hands too eagerly.
— Greek proverb

Greek proverbs proverbs

We cannot negotiate with those who say, "what's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable." - John F. Kennedy quote.
We cannot negotiate with those who say, "what's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable."
To get others to come to our way of thinking, we must go over to theirs. And it is necessary to follow in order to lead. - William Hazlitt quote.
To get others to come to our way of thinking, we must go over to theirs. And it is necessary to follow in order to lead.

leadership managing people

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

persuasion

If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own. - Henry Ford quote.
If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from his angle as well as from your own.

success

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham quote.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

excellence

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. - Maureen Dowd quote.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

equal pay

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi quote.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

peace socialism war

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par. - Mark Twain quote.
The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. - John Collins quote.
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

advisory success

To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to members of our family, society, and other nations. To promote the work of reconciliation, we have to refrain from aligning ourselves with one party or another so that we understand both. This work takes courage; we may be suppressed or even killed by those we wish to help. After listening to both sides, we can tell each side about the suffering of the other. This alone will bring about greater understanding. - Thích Nhất Hạnh quote.
To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to members of our family, society, and other nations. To promote the work of reconciliation, we have to refrain from aligning ourselves with one party or another so that we understand both. This work takes courage; we may be suppressed or even killed by those we wish to help. After listening to both sides, we can tell each side about the suffering of the other. This alone will bring about greater understanding.

buddhist

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy quote.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into negotiations. Your and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into negotiations. Your and mine cannot be separated.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. - E. B. White quote.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

disagreement

Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley.
When a man tells me he is going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.
Let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. - Abba Eban quote.
Let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it. - Mae West quote.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.