Negotiation Quotes

There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years. (Kim Dae-jung)
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing. View quote
Harri Holkeri
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want-not only you, your whole family and all people like you. View quote
Ai Weiwei
However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. View quote
Hideki Tōjō
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. View quote
Dean Acheson
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns. View quote
Joss Whedon
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion. View quote
Carl Schmitt
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation. (William Winwood Reade)
I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act. View quote
Thom Mayne
The art of negotiation is perhaps what most deeply distinguishes man from the animals, and it is this art and this will to negotiate that has brought man forward, elevated him beyond the animals. View quote
Harry Martinson
Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. View quote
Diane Setterfield
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. View quote
Tom Metzger
He [Mick McGahey] has made it quite plain over the weekend-as has another miners' leader-that the object of what they are doing is not a wage negotiation... Its purpose is...to get rid of the elected government of the day. Now that is entirely a political approach and, he has said quite openly, he wishes to do it in order to get a left-wing government and obviously he expects a left-wing government to toe the line as far as he is concerned. View quote
Edward Heath
Unfortunately, in this country the propaganda for entering the Common Market has been largely based on defeatism. We are told that unless we do it we are going to have a terrible time. That is no way to go into a negotiation. You ought to go into a negotiation on the basis that they have need of you, not just you of them. View quote
Clement Attlee
But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation. View quote
John Allen Fraser
We are ready to continue to work with the U. S. side and other parties concerned to peacefully resolve the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and the Iranian nuclear issue through diplomatic negotiation to uphold the international non-proliferation regime and safeguard global peace and stability. View quote
Hu Jintao
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. View quote
Richard Holbrooke
It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here. (Howard Raiffa)
The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques. View quote
Howard Raiffa
Politics in America is still different from politics anywhere else because the politics has arisen out of the immediate needs, ambitions, and cupidities of the people, that our politics still smell of the bedroom and the kitchen, rather than having descended to us from the chill punctilio of aristocratic negotiation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians," who in effect said this is a complicated issue of seeing how little we can give away, how much we can extract from the other side; it's highly specialized. Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons, the delivery systems, the targeting, the nature of the MIRV and the CRUISE, on down, and the MX. This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Like knowing hostages, the AFL-CIO and its unions march in tandem to endorse the Democratic presidential nominees early in the primary season. They have given up their capacity for negotiation, so frightened are they of the Republicans. Meanwhile, the rank-and-file workers suffer their dwindling status in silence. View quote
Ralph Nader