Bill Johnson Quotes

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all.

Let us have frankness before the handshake.

It is foreign to the Cherokee principle to feign friendship where it does not exist.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Compromise is a stalling between two fools.

Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.

Compromise is when you do what I tell you and I do what I want. ~Tiny Cooper

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary. In my vocabulary, the word "compromise" is synonymous to the word "life".

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.