Tim Cook Quotes

I'm much more on the phone to Mr. Kevin Pietersen these days than anybody else I know.

Maybe I should call Aaya!(Shigure) If you call him...(Yuki) I'll make you eat that phone.(Kyou) -Shigure-san,Yuki-san, Kyou-kun Shoma

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

The Bible clearly says that when we have a problem with our brother, we are to go to them and try to resolve the situation.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.

It's great to work with friends. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but everybody goes into it knowing that. Like, 'We might be really good friends, but we might be terrible collaborators.'

I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

The story of the merchant is told by the marketer. They need each other, and if they get along, it's peanut butter and jelly. If they don't, it's oil and water.

The fact that these owners sacked me doesn't mean that our relationship is broken. I still get on well with Florentino, and although I haven't spoken much with Abramovich since I left Chelsea, I have no problem with him.

I have been in business a long time. I never had a successful relationship or partnership with any entity by issuing an ultimatum.

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life. You have to be able to be husband and wife at the same time as business partners.

If I have a problem with somebody, I go ahead and say what's on my mind.

I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't made a phone call to Russia in years. Don't speak to people from Russia. Not that I wouldn't. I just have nobody to speak to.

The guy I've never worked with that is pissing me off is Tom Hanks. I want to work with Tom Hanks more than anyone.

I’m a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.