Erik Estrada Quotes

Players are smart. That locker room knows. So don't hide anything.

You gotta trust a person to work with 'em.

When you are working with likeminded people, then there are no pretences.

I really like working with people who believe what they're saying.

It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

One seldom hears or sees a quarrel among them. Even strangers trust each other more than acquaintances in Europe. People are far more sincere and generous than in Germany

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

For me, the most satisfying time to work with people, and time when it really works, is when you work with directors that are into the truth of any sort of situation.

Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.

The four of us are really in sync with each other. We're pretty open about most things. We try to respect each other as much as we can. For us, communication is really important.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

Having a team that I trust is, for me, really important.