Eric Yuan Quotes

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

I love keeping a connection with everyone I've worked with.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.

In any field, people want to work with those who they know and trust. It's the same in the Hindi film industry.

I make it a priority to keep in touch with people with whom I've worked in the past. And I'm fortunate, because I've worked with some terrific folks.

Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

Rapport is the ultimate tool for producing results with other people. No matter what you want in your life, if you can develop rapport with the right people, you'll be able to fill their needs, and they will be able to fill yours.

You've got to develop relationships. You can't do things just in a formal context.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis.

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

When you are truly interested in other people, you will learn what they are interested in and if they have a need for your product. If they like you, and most people like folks who take an interest in them, they'll help you find people who do need what you have to sell, even if they don't.

I keep in touch with a lot of people I work with.

You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter where you are starting from; you are always going to run back into those people, and they are going to talk, and that's going to be the base of whether you get good opportunities or not.