Quotes about Negotiation

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand (mentally speaking), and guide him. You don't stand across the room and shout at him; you don't call him a dummy; you don't order him to come over to where you are. You start where he is, and work from that position. That's the only way to get him to budge.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:

Their offer seemed good to Hamor and his son Shechem.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Then Amaziah sent messengers to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”