Strategic Relationships Quotes

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight.

There is no such thing as eternal friendship or eternal hostility– only eternal interests.

Mr. [Judah P.] Benjamin, unquestionably, will have great influence with the President [Jefferson Davis], for he has studied his character most carefully. He will be familiar not only with his "likes" but especially his "dislikes.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Just following 'Survivor' over the years, sometimes if an individual is not a threat and he doesn't rub anybody the wrong way and he can get into an alliance, he can hang out there for a while.

Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.

Sometimes you make friends when they are useful.

Taylor Swift is very strategic with her friends and enemies. And I know lots of secrets. I can't divulge, but I know a lot of stuff about her. And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.