Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I'm fascinated by how they work so I'm good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.

I'm a very friendly person, and I think that's had a big impact on my work because I tend to be pretty good with not trying to always win every argument and things like that. I just sort of try to bring a lot of people together to talk.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I'm quite good at bringing people together.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.