If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going read more

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

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? read more

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.

I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex read more

I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making read more

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

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine and read more

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."

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

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

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce read more

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The go-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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

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