“It is better for you, for them, and for everyone else, that you should turn an enemy into a trusted friend rather than a corpse. As it is said, 'a rising tide lifts all ships”
“A one-sided friendship is the friendship where you are the only person who does all the work. You do all the calling, all the visiting, all the giving and all the everything.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“Most people live in friendship without living as friends.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“If we could all become friends to the people in our lives, we could really make a great difference in their lives.”
Source: The Law Of Reciprocity
“I am known for my loyalty and friendship. Do not fear disgrace; come to me fearlessly and recklessly.”
“In fact, when you're doing business with friends you should be even more deliberate about discussing startegy and outlining clear goals and business practices. I didn't want to risk the relationship by having these hard conversations or seeming unsupportive, so in the end I said yes... and our friendship was still affected.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“I can't stress enough: when doing business with friends, the agreement needs to be ironclad. The terms need to be crystal clear. THe more you leave open to interpretation, the more one party will make assumptions based on friendship rather than business. Sometimes we avoid these conversations because we don't want our friends to think we don't believe in them, but it's always better to discuss contingency plans before you need them.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“There will always be new business opportunities. If you say no to one deal, another will come along. But you can't replace a friend. Sure you will make new ones, but the people who have known you outside the office, maybe since before your career even started, those relationships can't just be replaced.”
Source: What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
“He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were.”
Source: Mayflies
“They were his friends, his first friends, and he understood that friendship was a series of exchanges, of affections, of time, sometimes of money, always of information.”
Source: A Little Life