Jeremy Luke Quotes

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

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

I pick good big men as teammates, don't I?

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

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.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

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

When I'm hiring leaders, I pay a lot of attention to what their peers and what people who report to them say about them. We want people who relate well with their peers and cooperate in an exchange of information rather than being overly competitive.

I'm usually always a big fan of the people that I'm working with, because I get to work with big people.

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

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.

I've always been a team player.

I like working with people. I like talking to people.