It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Interpretation
A mutually beneficial agreement requires both parties to perceive value in it.
This quote emphasizes that true agreements or deals must have a sense of fairness and mutual benefit. If only one side feels satisfied while the other does not, it indicates an imbalance that can lead to dissatisfaction and conflict, revealing the importance of equitable exchanges in relationships.
In practice
During a negotiation meeting to stress the importance of finding a middle ground.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child without a permit for parenthood.
In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.
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