Walter Annenberg Quotes

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.

I feel like you always learn different things from different teams.

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

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 wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

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

I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

It's one of those things I have been able to do - play well with my teammates and getting others involved.

Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

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

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

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.

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

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

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 enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people.

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.