Quotes About Leadership

I'm not trying to be anyone. You know why other executives always hire phonies? Because they're phonies. They hire phonies because they like phonies. They're comfortable with them.

If you are going to fire this person or hire that person, do it all in a concentrated period. The Band-Aid gets ripped off, and everybody goes back to work.

I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.

If you hire great people, and they're all self-motivated, then you can get by without a lot of structure.

My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad.

Something I often say is, 'I stand on the shoulders of the people who came before, and I'm ready to lift up people to stand on my shoulders.' And one of the ways we can do that is to hire them.

The first people in a company are the most important. They will hire people like themselves and create a culture that either works or eats away at the chance for success.

I know what I know and I also know what I don't know, and I make sure I hire the right people who can teach me.

If you hire a coach, I believe you should let them do their job.

You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

I assume you know what to do with this. That's why you were hired.

I'm in a different position than most CEO's. I'm a founder. I'm not a hired CEO. Now, I can be fired by the board, but most CEO's are hired by the board.

Uber has a lot of money, and they've hired a lot of good people, and they have the capacity to professionalize.

I was hired to make United better, and that's what we'll do.

The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.

I was hired to be the head football coach, not the general manager.

You know, if I've done anything right, it has been hiring the right people.

It's important to push the agenda of hiring women directors.

I'm into hiring smart guys; I'm into hiring guys who can think at a higher level, that can offer ideas.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

I'm really good at hiring good people.