Book Titles

Getting to Yes
Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In

By Roger Fisher

Year Published: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0143118756
Categories: Agreement, Negotiation, Tactics

126 Quotes Found

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Getting to Yes:

Principled negotiation produces wise agreements amicably and efficiently.

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The more you bring standards of fairness, efficiency, or scientific merit to bear… the more likely you are to produce a final package that is wise and fair.

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Agree first on principles. Before even considering possible terms, you may want to agree on the standard or standards to apply.

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When each party is advancing a different standard, look for an objective basis for deciding between them…

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It is the combination of openness to reason with insistence on a solution based on objective criteria that makes principled negotiation so persuasive and effective…

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Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

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If you must insist on a bottom line, you are not likely to explore an imaginative solution… A bottom line – by its very nature rigid – is almost certain to be too rigid.

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The reason you negotiate is to produce something better than the results you can obtain without negotiating.

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If you have not thought carefully about what you will do if you fail to reach any agreement, you are negotiating with your eyes closed.

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…the relative negotiating power of two parties depends primarily upon how attractive to each is the option of not reaching agreement.

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