Brad Feld Quotes

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.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

You tend to do deals with people you have an affinity with, especially at the beginning.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

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.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

I connect with people on a daily basis.

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

My hope always when I am working with a new client is that I will cultivate a relationship with them: develop a dialogue and a way of working. This makes it easy for a star to trust you.

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.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

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.

A dinner lubricates business.

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

It's an exciting thing to build a relationship with a talent that's outside of your comfort zone.

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.

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

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.

Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.

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?

There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.