Sam Altman Quotes

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

Clients become very attached to the fitter who they feel understands them.

My barometer for choosing a board member is this: regardless of the business, can I make a lifelong friend?

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a crisis. That's why I think having regular meetings and conversation when there's no crisis, when you can build trust and a friendship and a relationship that allows for better dialogue and far more consequential deal-making can occur when a crisis does come up.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.

People do business with people who make them feel special.

We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

I got to meet Andy [Hertzfeld], and he sort of opened his life to me. He showed me Palo Alto and we had food together and I met his wife and saw his home. We talked a lot about his experiences, and I just tried to absorb as much about him as I could.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.