Brian Epstein Quotes

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

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!

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

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.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

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

I've always been a team player.

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.

I'm a teamworker.

It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.

It's great to communicate as a team.

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.

In a way, sometimes collaborating is more difficult because you have to listen.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.

Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

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

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

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