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Negotiation Quotes
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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
– Mo Udall
If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.
– Max Gunther
If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy’s propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
– Kenneth Kaye
If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.
– Kenneth Kaye
If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.
– Kenneth Kaye
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
– Billy Graham
Hearts may agree though heads differ.
– Thomas Fuller
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
– Adlai Stevenson
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
– Anonymous
Give quarrel; get quarrel.
– Anonymous
Give love; get love.
– Anonymous
Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.
– Thomas Crum
Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.
– Thomas Crum
Don’t wrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.
– Anonymous
Cooperative conflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets things done.
– Dean Tjosvold
Conflict management and problem solving are part of the same process.
– Thomas Isgar
Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.
– Kenneth Kaye
Conflict isn’t negative, it just is.
– Thomas Crum
Conflict lies at the core of innovation.
– Emanuel R. Piore
Conflict involves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.
– Dean Tjosvold
Conflict can destroy a team which hasn’t spent time learning to deal with it.
– Thomas Isgar
Conflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.
– Thomas Crum
Better to be occasionally cheated that perpetually suspicious.
– B.C. Forbes
Assumption of cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to be solved for mutual benefit.
– Dean Tjosvold
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
– Samuel Goldwyn
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
– Seneca
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
– Ludwig Erhard
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