Quotes on Negotiation

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in a world of angels...I am thus far a Quaker, that I would gladly agree with all the world to lay aside the use of arms, and settle matters by negotiation: but unless the whole will, the matter ends, and I take up my musket and thank Heaven He has put it in my power.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

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

In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.

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

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

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.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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

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

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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