Quotes from Donny Deutsch

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

I don't have a favorite medium; I was brought up on TV. so I am clearly of the TV generation, but it depends on what you are trying to sell; sometimes a fully integrated solution, sometimes a pure Internet solution, sometimes a pure billboard solution.

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

Failure is not an option on this one.