Quotes about Negotiation

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent.

There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous.

It is better to win the peace and to lose the war.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Chamberlain's visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me likean inevitable conflict within the next five years.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

A salesperson who is an able showman can change the prospective buyer's mind from negative to positive.

Sometimes it is wiser to join forces with opponents than to fight them.