Greg Behrendt Quotes

Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

It has always seemed to me the real art in this business is not so much moving information or guidance or policy five or 10,000 miles. That is an electronic problem. The real art is to move it the last three feet in face to face conversation.

I absolutely love talking to all of my fans.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

I'm not a real big text guy. I'm not really into this new age stuff. I don't twit or tweet, but I think face-to-face is a man thing.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

It's nice to hear from fans directly.

As a player, you can't express ideas and opinions as easily as when you're doing a ballgame.

My cell phone is the number one way for me to communicate with my fans. I love the direct connection I can make via social media whether I am on the road or at home.

Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

The only meaningful contact is one that involves a genuine, giving personal interaction. You may want another person to help you in business, but you must also be willing to help him and to spend time getting to know his interests and needs... It has to be real and heartfelt, or it's best not to try to establish the relationship at all.

He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!

There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.

I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.

I gotta use words to talk to you.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.