Karen Salmansohn Quotes

The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.

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.

I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

I like developing relationships.

Remember, don't let the pressures of doing business get in the way of what doing business is truly about: building relationships with people.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

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.

People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.

The lesson for businesses is you are dealing with real people. Those are your customers, those are your employees, those are your bosses, and the better you understand how real people tick, the more successfully you will be able to accomplish your goals.

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.

I just like interacting with people.

Contact is in my nature.

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

Because of my personality, I'm able to connect with kids on a personal level.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

You have to have a patience for relationships.

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

I'm good at picking friends.

To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.