Jim Ross Quotes

I make my relationships at work.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work.

Some of my colleagues I have the most differences with in decisions are ones with whom I have a very friendly relationship. You have to be able to step back and look at the issues and your colleagues.

It's nature that you're going to have relationships in your life, and sometimes it's with the people you work with.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

We are footballers, so if you've got to play with someone, you've got to play with them. What happens off the pitch, well, you can't get on with everyone you work with.

Learn to work with people you wouldn't go to lunch with.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

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

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

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

I choose work with the people I like to work with.

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

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

I've always been a good ensemble player.