Brad Goreski Quotes

It's important to build trust if you're trying to deal with big things. Big issues require everybody to get outside their comfort zone, and people are more willing to do so if they believe that their partner is sincere in their efforts. And the only way you can do that is to engage them on a personal level.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

If you don't know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you're shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.

In order to build chemistry you've got to really know one another.

If you listen, people will tell you exactly what they want - whether it's a business relationship or a consumer relationship.

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too.

Building relationships. Communicating. Trust. Those are three things I've kind of instilled myself with.

How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.