Naveen Tewari Quotes

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I play well with everybody.

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

The biggest thing that I learned is when you're building something - especially a project that requires partners - you have to make sure that there is a lot of overlapping desire and a lot of overlapping alignment with the people that you're doing work with.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

I can work with anyone.

I try to work with people the way they prefer.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

I take great pride in being able to work with anybody.

In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

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

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!