Pier Luigi Loro Piana Quotes

That’s the trick in any negotiation. Getting to yes means getting the other party satisfied that its interest are being met sufficiently…. You both got to get something out of it that your prepared to fight for at home.

The art of government is the art of negotiating and compromise.

Anyone who has ever negotiated an agreement knows that in order to get it, you have to be willing to walk away from the table..

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

We're all negotiators.

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

We always find that taking a fairly hard-line position means our membership gets the best deal possible.

Negotiating with Franco is like having your teeth pulled.

Deals really have to do with the overlap of what one side wants and the other side wants, and it's really just the discovery of where that overlap is and how you decide to get there.

People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.

That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Bipartisanship is like marriage. It takes two to make it work. It only takes one to make it a failure. The President has been playing politics with foreign policy.

The art of politics is to design a solution that feels painless to all.

When you are President you have to get something done, and that often means compromise.