Westside Gunn Quotes

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

I love working closely with people.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

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

Communication is important.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

In principle, every social situation involves strategic interaction among the participants.

If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

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

I love collaborating with different people.

People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people.

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

The hardest job is getting personalities to mesh.

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