Phife Dawg Quotes

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

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.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here.

We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.

You spend more time with your fellow band members than your girlfriend or wife, and you end up at each other's throats. It happens to all bands.

Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

I have one client: Donald Trump.

Simon and I are good pals. We're friends except when we walk out on 'The X Factor,' he always has a go at me. And I never expect it. We're good friends behind the scenes, we do Westlife together, we are friends.

I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

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

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.

A fellow and his business should be bosom friends in the office and sworn enemies out of it.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.