Chris Voss

I try to be around good people.

I try to be around really good, hardworking, regular people that are fun to be around.

And everywhere I've gone, if we've managed to coalesce a group of fun, hardworking, regular people, extraordinary things happen.

When I was in New York working on the terrorist task force, you know, the hardworking regular guys.

We found each other in terrorism.

And New York's a big enough place.

Like, it was the same thing.

The organized crime guys, white-collar crime guys, you know, whatever.

The regular hardworking guys got together and made extraordinary cases.

You know, we made, in terrorism, we made cases they wrote books about and they made movies about.

The organized crime guys did the same thing.

If you get those regular people together that just have a ball, just laugh at stupid stuff.

Yeah.

Don't take themselves too seriously.

Work like crazy.

And then you get a chance to do extraordinary stuff.

That's fun.

Yeah, it was just one thing out of left field after another.

Like I never even imagined being a hostage negotiator.

It wasn't a goal.