Bill Belichick Quotes

A lot of actors talk about how much they love the people they work with, and that's true, to a certain extent, but Texas and I had a very strong bond, right from the beginning. I think Texas made a mental decision to just be on my side, 110%.

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

The one great thing about a continuing collaboration is that they know you. And if you're really lucky, they really believe in you and think that your talent has some unending bounds to it.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

We will probably always be in business together.

You cannot build a partnership on four games.

No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your idea is going to be embraced, and even if it isn't, that everyone is going to work on it as hard as they can, then that's a great thing.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

When you have a friend you work with for 15 years, you become like brothers.

Every great business is built on friendship.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

You decide to give your trust over to somebody. And if you don't decide to, then for me, it's really not worth going into collective enterprises; you should just work alone.

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

My wife and I are a team, and it's good for my work because I'm interested in working from a stable base.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.

Friendships are this fun team. You get to have partners in crime.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.