Yair Lapid Quotes

Negotiations can resolve differences, cooperation can replace confrontation and development can create a win-win scenario.

There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.

Costa Rica believes in building bridges, in looking for solutions to problems, and not clinging to positions.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

There is always competition for influence, but there are also opportunities for cooperation.

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

Solutions must be based on compromises.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

I hate competition.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.

God does not always give victory to the leaders by means of the sword, nor are such things always accomplished by fighting. But what toil has not procured, words have often effected, and the greatest trophies have been erected by friendly and propitiatory intercourse. Let us therefore not spend our time here uselessly, but endeavor to accomplish something sensible and courageous for our own safety… Let each one of us studiously try to win over the barbarian who guards our respective section.

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

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

In an exercise of rationalizing competing interests, nobody usually gets 100% of what they want. That’s what multiple use is all about.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.

It ought not to be beyond the intelligence of even the most hidebound local politician to see the benefits of imaginative compromise.

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too.

I'm always ready to negotiate in good faith with others.

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.