Dale Carnegie
Author, Speaker
"By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected."
Negotiation quotes
Negotiation
81 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"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.'"
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."
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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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"It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less."
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"We were not born to sue, but to command."
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"We will not engage in an endless process of negotiations."
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"We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate."
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"Here's how the court put it, and all judges agreed to this. The court said: "There exists and obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations under nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control.""
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