N. Murray Edwards Quotes

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

The main purpose of dialogue is to come to an agreement on how the two parties can work together, realize their mutual interests, and avoid conflict as much as possible

You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity.

One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose.

We want to strike the right balance between the governments and our users. If there are concerns, we can work together.

If the deal isn't good for the other party, it isn't good for you.

Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

Bipartisanship means you work together to work it out.

You see every extreme position defended to the last vote, almost to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. You often see a balanced and fair approach that demands sacrifice, a little sacrifice from everyone, abandoned like an orphan without support and without friends.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.'

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

We must work together as Americans in a bipartisan fashion.

You have to understand that every negotiation isn't about taking everything off the table. It's cliche, but you have to try and make sure the other side feels good and you feel good. Because in my business, when I make a deal, it just means once we're done negotiating, we have to go off and work together.

There is no win-win or lose-lose in a situation. Everything is a medium.

I am willing to do business and I'm willing to play ball with anyone, for I am very open-minded.

You don't want to appear as if you are not a team player, but at the same time, you don't want to be taken advantage of.

Our mission and task has always been to find a pragmatic balance among competing interests that will serve the greatest common good.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

I'm all in favour of talking to other parties, always have been, always will be. I'm a pluralist, talk to them, see what we've got in common, work together, fine.

Most of us don't look at investment in a win-win situation. You have to give in a little bit; you have to take a little bit. Most feel everything has to be rinsed out for closing of the transaction.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.