Joe Satriani Quotes

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

Baseball is all about relationships, and in some ways, what know you and who knows you.

I make it a priority to keep in touch with people with whom I've worked in the past. And I'm fortunate, because I've worked with some terrific folks.

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

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.

All I do is talk to people, email people, take meetings with people, and do interviews. Then I work at maintaining relationships with my investors because the trust people place in me is my business model.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

On 'I'm A Celebrity' it's important to have chemistry and to have a friendship as a starting point you can grow from.

For me to work with someone, I have to know who I'm working with so I can learn how to deal with each other and try to help each other. At the end of the day, it really just comes down to building a genuine relationship. I think that's a very important factor in business.

As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

If I've had any modicum of success, it's because I've had good relationships, and people trusted me.

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

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'