Karl Rove Quotes

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.

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

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

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

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

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.

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.

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

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.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

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.

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

I make my relationships at work.

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.

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

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.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

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

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

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.