Graeme Simsion Quotes

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

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

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

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

I think that one thing I have learned as a freshman is that it is really important to collaborate.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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

The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

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.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

I love to work with people who are great at what they do.

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

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 am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.