Marge Kennedy Quotes

I've got to pick my fights at the right time.

You gotta choose what battles you can win.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

It takes two people to fight, and it takes two companies to sit down and figure it out and decide what network we're going to fight on, where we're going to fight, what the purses are going to be.

It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

I think everybody has a point where they're not going to cross that line. There were a couple of things with Comedy Central that we had to fight for. They were pretty cool about everything. I don't think there was anything we really fought for that didn't happen.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

You can win as long as you chose your battles. You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. So what I've learned is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits, but just not buckle.

In quarreling, the truth is always lost.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

I will go anywhere, anytime, to meet with anyone to find common ground.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

A good compromise leaves everyone angry.

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

Women always look for a peaceful solution to a conflict. They are more sensible when they go for compromise or when they stand by their position. They are ready to listen to different views, to hear all the voices in society.

Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

If America cannot win a war in a week, it begins negotiating with itself.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.