Quotes About Building Relationships

#1. What we really need is a mindset shift that will make us relevant to todays consumers, a mindset shift from telling to selling to building relationships.

Jim Stengel

#2. The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.

Lynn Johnston

#3. Building relationships is the key for being happy as a coach. Players must want to play for you. If they are comfortable with you, they will work hard for you.

Mike McConathy

#4. When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

Hillary Clinton

#5. The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

Hillary Clinton

#6. In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

Thomas Keller

#7. As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

Reince Priebus

#8. I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#9. Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#10. Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

Jessica Valenti

#11. Great communicators exemplify the power that building relationships, creating respect and achieving results can have.

John Stoker

#12. Leadership means you see the best in people and coach them to success. Leadership means you are the most positive person you know and an individual dedicated to building relationships.

Robin S. Sharma

#13. We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

Kara Swisher

#14. Building relationships is building business. Also, you sometimes need other people to kill all the motherfucking zombies.

Jesse Petersen

#15. One of the best book marketing tips I can give you is simply building relationships - well that and publishing more books.

Heather Hart

#16. The most important component to the Apple experience is that the staff isn't focused on selling stuff. It's focused on building relationships and trying to make people's lives better.

Carmine Gallo

#17. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.

Sally Hogshead

#18. Typically, we use the term "playing politics" only to describe our colleagues' behavior - never our own. They are sucking up, scheming, and manipulating, but we are building relationships, developing strategies, and opening communication channels.

Marie G. McIntyre

#19. The most important priority for every leader should be building relationships based on the principles of love.

Sunday Adelaja

#20. You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you're not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

Mark Zuckerberg

#21. Building relationships on a global scale requires putting human beings on the ground in regions all over the world - and only the Army has the manpower to do this.

Rosa Brooks

#22. Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

John C. Maxwell

#23. The smartest people who succeed in their careers for the long-term never stop working hard, never stop building relationships, and never lose touch with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Eric Jackson

#24. In the end, what matters most is that the people you work with share your values, so I've wanted people who value the meaningful work and meaningful relationships that always motivated me in building Bridgewater.

Ray Dalio

#25. And I think that's what our world is desperately in need of - lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about.

Shane Claiborne

#26. One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. So we have to internalize a very powerful reality that Allah has given us. We treasure all of our relationships so long as, they are something that is building us towards the akhirah (the afterlife). So I want to leave you with this picture, what Allah has in His possession is better.

Nouman Ali Khan

#28. All living relationships are in process of
change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms. But there is no single
fixed form to express such a changing relationship.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#29. Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

Stephen Covey

#30. Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong.

Sam Owen

#31. Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"

Stephen Covey

#32. I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

Rachel Sklar

#33. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

Leo Buscaglia

#34. When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.

Zig Ziglar

#35. All you really need to do is focus on building quality relationships instead of trying to be a social butterfly at every social gathering.

S.J. Scott

#36. I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.

Barack Obama

#37. The discipline of witness takes seriously the biblical mandate of bearing witness to Jesus by building nonmanipulative relationships with eternity in view.

Kenneth D. Boa

#38. You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of

Itzik Amiel

#39. Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.

Stana Katic

#40. Small talk is incredibly important when building new relationships and is necessary to do when networking, provided it is not small minded...

Small talk helps to provide a bridge from saying "hello" to the substantive part of the conversation.

Timothy M. Houston

#41. One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.

Christopher Alexander

#42. When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.

Michael J. Saylor

#43. Position yourself to succeed first by building good relationships with the right people; and then put your effort and expertise behind that!

Garrison Wynn

#44. A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

Timothy Carey

#45. Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building enduring communities requires empathy, self-sacrifice and a willingness to help others without expecting anything in return.

Ben Parr

#46. I will help build your museum
When you run out of space to hang your work
You can hang your work in mine

Darnell Lamont Walker

#47. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding

Kirsten Siggins

#48. Thinking about anger in positive terms is alien in most people's experiences. However, a healthy expression of anger is a component for building and maintaining successful relationships!

David W. Earle

#49. By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.

Simon Mainwaring

#50. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

Brian Houston

#51. Branding is about building trust and loyalty and extending your customer relationships far beyond a single transaction.

Phil Cooke

#52. Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

Paul Goldberger

#53. Remember that quick fix is a mirage. Building and repairing relationships takes time.

Stephen R. Covey

#54. Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships

Keith Ferrazzi

#55. If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

Michael Patrick King

#56. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Gordon Livingston

#57. Am you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#58. Whether via social media or in person, building your relationships is a long-term process, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen your network one person at a time.

Raymond Arroyo

#59. I don't really have many hobbies but one of my favorite things to do is spend time with my family. We have fun together, and building those relationships is very important to me.

Joyce Meyer

#60. I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.

Nick Davies

#61. Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, anybody that falls in love is either unconscious or dead.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#62. What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

Murray Gell-Mann

#63. We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area in order to keep the forest as the forest. This makes sense for us from the perspective of climate change and of poverty.

Guilherme Leal

#64. It is much easier to condemn Islam and 'oppressive Muslim men' than to unpack the intricate relationships between global politics related to empire building and capitalist expansion as well as regional and national struggles revolving around political and economic power and resources.

Nadje Al-Ali

#65. Some of the most beautiful and rewarding relationships come from mutual respect that eventually burned into fervent passion. Don't take for granted the friendship you are building at the moment, just appreciate it and cherish it for what it is.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#66. Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?

Chris Bent

#67. For every bridge you burn
there is the burdensome task
of building another one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#68. The depth of your network is more important than its length

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#69. I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.

Maureen Brady

#70. Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.

Rosa Brooks

#71. The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

Phil Mitchell

#72. Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#73. Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important ingredient in one's search for meaning.

Gary Chapman

#74. People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships

Sunday Adelaja