Book Titles

Never Split the Difference
Negotiating as if you life depended on it

By Chris Voss

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-240780-1
Categories: Negotiation, Persuasion, Winning

185 Quotes Found

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Never Split the Difference:

Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out the window.

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Never Split the Difference:

You can learn almost everything you need… simply by watching and listening, keeping your eyes peeled and your ears open, and your mouth shut.

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Never Split the Difference:

It may sound touchy-feely, but if you can perceive the emotions of others, you have a chance to turn them to your advantage.

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Never Split the Difference:

The more you know about someone, the more power you have.

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Never Split the Difference:

Tactical empathy is understanding the feelings and mindset of another in the moment and also hearing what is behind those feelings so you can increase your influence…

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Never Split the Difference:

Empathy helps us learn the position the enemy is in, why their actions make sense (to them), and what might move them.

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Never Split the Difference:

Labeling is a way of validating someone’s emotion by acknowledging it.

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The trick to spotting feelings is to pay close attention to changes people undergo when they respond to external events. Most often, those events are your words.

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Never Split the Difference:

…when you phrase a label as a neutral statement of understanding, it encourages your counterpart to be responsive.

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Never Split the Difference:

…a label’s power is that it invites the other person to reveal himself.

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