Ian Gillan Quotes

When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too.

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

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

It's a very good thing to have a group that stays together and understands each other as well.

You always want to know, What makes a team great? It's the relationships. It's when you take the field, you actually care about each other. And when you care about each other, you play harder, and you trust the guy next to you.

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.

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%.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

You have to work with people you really love.

We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Trust leads to approachability and open communications.

You will succeed only if you first build trust. It's like wolves. They show each other their necks and don't bite.

Trust is fundamental, reciprocal and, ideally, pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible. The best leaders trust their followers with the truth, and you know what happens as a result? Their followers trust them back. With that bond, they can do big, hard things together, changing the world for the better.

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

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.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.