Maverick Carter Quotes

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

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

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

I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

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 believe you can work with anybody.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

I play well with everybody.

A really good uniformed cop has tremendous people skills, and they learn how to read people.

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

I can work with a lot of different mentalities.

I feel like I've always been a great mediator.

I'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

I get along very well with people - that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.