Damon Albarn Quotes

Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals'.

When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

Iranians find Americans easy to deal with because they are straightforward. That … could give Iranians an advantage in any negotiations. But for Americans to understand Iranians, they must recognize that with Iranians the mind thinks something, the head feels something else, the tongue says something else, and manners do something else. It doesn’t mean people are lying. They are just dealing with you with a different character.

Some of the best lawyers in this country are hired, not to go into court to defend cases, but to advise corporations and business firms how they can get around the law with too great a risk of punishment.

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.

While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.

You should think of your customers as partners, or better still, family.

Different cultures have different audiences.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

There's never a benefit to bragging too much about a deal because the only sure thing is that I'm probably going to be dealing with that same general manager or that same person over and over again.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.