Roberto Azevedo Quotes

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work.

I'm quite good at bringing people together.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

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

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

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.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.

David Bruce, I think, is one of the outstanding persons for whom I've ever worked. He had a sense of balance. He was interested in everything that went on in the Embassy. He delegated authority, but at the same time when you needed the Ambassador's help on anything, you could go to him, and he would immediately respond.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.