Scott Weiss Quotes

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

Personally criticizing a member of my staff hardly seemed like the way to negotiate a deal.

I'll never forget Cricket Australia telling me I was too soft and I'd been too soft with the team... I kind of didn't know what they wanted.

For whatever reason, I've always been interested in those types of things - leadership books and different ways to connect with people in a real, authentic, genuine type of way.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

Novice leaders often respond dramatically to provocations.

You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.