Quotes About Teamwork

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

I had a big step here in San Antonio, good help, great work. I learned a lot. Everybody helped me, great and smart people. They helped me a lot and made me better player.

I've been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I'm very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

I always make sure I hire people smarter than me.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

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

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.

Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

We all say we enjoy playing rugby, but most guys don't really show it - and some guys I don't think actually enjoy it. So every time I arrive in the morning, I've always got a smile on my face. Once I lose that enjoyment, I will stop playing.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

When I play all the time, I play with a smile on my face, and then I can help my team with my goals and my game and the way I can play football.