Larry David Quotes

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.

A fair bargain leaves both sides unhappy.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

The term negotiation implies compromise; painful concessions on the part of both parties.

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise. If either or both sides insist on getting everything that they want - that is to say 100 percent of their demands to be met, then there can never be a settlement.

First fight. Then fiddle.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

We're all negotiators.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

It's the perfect definition of a settlement. Both parties didn't get what they wanted.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

My people were divided about surrendering.

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

I never satisfied that kid but I think he and I have made a deal now.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.