Dan Quayle Quotes

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign to my own, I would not have been able to be successful.

... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

I don't work any different in Japan than I do in the U.S. Some guys do, but if you're entertaining, you're entertaining, and if you're not, you're not, and that plays worldwide.

In Spain, they're never direct, and that frustrates me.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

Cultural differences - they are definitely vast in some ways. But I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.

I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.

I don't think you've ever coached till you've coached an Asian team.

Across all U.S. intelligence agencies, there is a lack of cultural respect and a poorly tuned attitude toward foreign peoples and cultures.

Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

Others think their American ways will work in other countries. That's not always accurate and can be disrespectful to the local culture.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.

In some cultures, like Middle Eastern, Egyptian, or Asian cultures, people are often hesitant to give any negative feedback.

What works in the States doesn't easily translate to the Korean market.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.