Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

Connections and relationships are important everywhere, anywhere - of course in China, because the rule of law it is not as strong as in the West, so a lot would rely on personal relationships.

Those whom we support hold us up in life.

I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.

If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.

We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each other’s honesty.

We've got a lot of friends. We take care of them because they take care of us.

People will help each other because there is a sense of camaraderie that springs up, which is a survival tactic. You help them because you know you might need their help later. And that is incredibly reassuring.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

If we don't help each other, who will?

We cannot walk alone.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

That was the very heart of friendship...your willingness to help each other in a jam, to take a friend's problems as your very own.