Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 15

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it''s the only thing that ever has.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

I''ve always felt that a person''s intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

When people say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Distance doesn''t matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

We''reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

In business, you don''t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

People who can''t admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don''t be too tough in thenegotiations. If you''re going to skin a cat, don''t keep it as a house cat.

Never cut what you can untie.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy''s resistance without fighting.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

You don''t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

It is with our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up andwalk away from the table without a deal.