Dashiell Hammett Quotes

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return.

The first rule of negotiations is that normally you have to give to get.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

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

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

Everybody trades off in some sense or another.

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

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

When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that

Exchange is creation.

It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

We cannot negotiate with those who say, "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is negotiable.

International negotiation has a nasty tendency to remind its practitioners that the laws of gravity affect them, too, and that international life is a two-way street in which one may have to give in order to get.

… the principle of give and take--give one and take ten--the principle of diplomacy.

Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

It is never exactly clear what makes something a quid or a quo.

Trust implies that both parties participate in the relationship with both 'gives' and 'gets.'

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.

Integration is a give and take.

You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide.

If something concrete and meaty is offered to me from Kapil's side, I will definitely do it.

Compromise is part of how we get things done.