Compromise Strategy Quotes

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of operation... If you start with nothing, demand 100 percent, then compromise for 30 percent, you're 30 percent ahead.

Politics is compromise.

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

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

Give your opponent an out. Look at the crises from his point of view.... Try to pick an option that achieves your purpose at minimal cost to him—military, political or otherwise.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

All legislation of any consequence is a compromise. You have to recognize that.

If you have to compromise, be sure to compromise up.

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

I had two roles for which I compromised.

'Compromise' isn't supposed to be a dirty word. It is, in fact, how representative democracy works.