Trai Byers Quotes

What I've learned - after working for, I guess, some time now - is when you're approaching a relationship like that, like, any working relationship, it's good to be open. To know that someone might have a different way of doing things and listen to them. And hopefully, you come to a common understanding.

I realized that if I had to work with others, I had to align with their vision.

I believe you can work with anybody.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

I play well with everybody.

Life is about compromise - in relationships and at work.

You know when you put two great players together, you're going to have to work through some things.

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

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

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.

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.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

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.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

I can work with anyone.

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.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

You can think as Einstein as much as you want, but when you come in contact with another person as a work unit of some kind, you have to think as one. You have to figure out all the things that you've studied and that your mind is telling you, and then you have to figure out how to make it work as one, or you have a broken down team.