Tony Robbins Quotes

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

My barometer for choosing a board member is this: regardless of the business, can I make a lifelong friend?

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

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 can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

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.

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

Me and Sheamus have a natural chemistry.

As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons.

The value of networking is not measured by the number of people we meet but by the number of people we introduce to others.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.

Open, honest communication is the best foundation for any relationship, but remember that at the end of the day it's not what you say or what you do, but how you make people feel that matters the most.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.