Negotiation quotes

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◆ If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

- Robin Williams100

◆ I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause

- Al Medwin99

◆ Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

- Harold Wilson99

◆ Let us never negotiate out of fear. But, let us never fear to negotiate.

- John F Kennedy99

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

- Dean Acheson99

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

- Meryl Streep99

◆ Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word.

- Caspar Weinberger99

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

- George Schultz99

◆ Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

- Richard M Nixon99

◆ We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

- Benjamin Netanyahu99

◆ One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.

- Akhmad Kadyrov99

◆ The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.

- Howard Baker99

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

- Dean Acheson99

◆ The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

- Brian Koslow99