“An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.” PeopleRealSelfLeaderTeamEssentialsAuthenticityWillingnessHonorableInner Self Author:Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
“Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.” PeopleArtistTeamToughFringeMusic Industry Author:Cary Brothers
“We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.” PeopleMenHumansImportantChallengesTechnologyTeamMoonIncrediblesMissionsDecadesFactorsRisen Author:Gene Kranz
“If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people who were too insane or too extremist to even get on the George W. Bush team.” PeopleIfsLooksSeemsTurnsTeamInsaneExtremistRudy Author:Josh Marshall
“Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction of becoming skilled at something. It almost doesn't matter what the terrain is. There is a deep, soul-feeding resonance in mastery itself, whether in teaching, writing a complicated software program, coaching a baseball team, or marshalling a group of people to start a new business.” PeopleWritingTwoDifferentSoulMatterGroupsTeamTeachingBecomingProgramBaseballSatisfactionComplicatedCoachingSoftwareMasteryFeedingResonanceTerrainNew BusinessBaseball TeamDeep SoulTeaching Writing Author:Atul Gawande
“Christmas Day was special because everybody is watching at home. That's what I loved about Christmas Day because it shined the spotlight on the Lakers, on our team, and we knew that all of the other leagues were at home and millions of people were watching. So it made it a special day to play on Christmas.” PeopleMadePlayHomeMillionsTeamSpecialMade ItLeagueSpotlightChristmas DayLakers Author:Magic Johnson
“No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.” PeopleIfsWantMatterGoalSuccessfulOne ThingTeamNo Matter WhatBeing SuccessfulSurroundSurround YourselfBecoming SuccessfulSurround Yourself With People Author:Kimora Lee Simmons
“You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.” PeopleWantPersonsMotivationGoalEnvironmentGroupsTeamAccomplish Author:Lou Holtz
“With the tone of the show, like a lot of the films, the Marvel creative team has found a way to bridge really exciting stuff that has real stakes. They balance some of the action stuff that the fans of the comics really want to see with characters that people can relate to and who are very human.” PeopleWayWantHumansRealCharacterShowsActionFilmFoundStuffCreativeTeamFansBalanceExcitingRelateBridgesToneStakesCreative Team Author:Clark Gregg
“Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team. I have continuity across different films that I've done. I was even fortunate enough to reach back and include people that had worked on Horton with me, as well.” PeopleWellsDifferentDoneEnoughFilmFallCreativeTeamFortunateContinuityRise And FallCreative Team Author:Christopher Meledandri
“It's easy to be a good person when things are going well. We try to find people that will rise up when things are not going well. When we build a team, it's not just how is this person going to be when things are good... when things are rough... then who are you?” PeopleTryingWellsPersonsEasyTeamRoughGood PersonBeing A Good Person Author:Bob Myers
“If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.” PeopleIfsMayQualityTeamRight DirectionHigh Quality Author:Bob Myers
“I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.” PeopleBelieveTwoThreeI BelieveLevelsFourWrittenTeamSoftwareDenseInteracting Author:John Warnock
“There is anxiety, but it comes after you've finished filming because it's out of your hands; people are editing it, they're cutting it, marketing it. And it's... part your career sort of rides on that. But when you're actually filming it's a team thing and it really feels good there for me.” PeopleFeelsHandsCareersCuttingTeamAnxietyMarketingFinishedFeel GoodEditing Author:Hugh Jackman
“When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side - but it was Celtic. I've never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!” PeopleSidesTeamEmotionalFinalsCupsUnbelievableScottishCelticCup FinalsPorto Author:Jose Mourinho
“Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!” PeoplePoliticalTurnsPoliticsTeachImagineTeamFootballHigherDegreesSurpriseQualifiedPolitical ScienceHigher EducationFootball TeamAmway Author:Richard Jeni
“Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.” PeopleActingRolesKnowingGroupsTeamAccomplishMissionsMarineMarine Corps Author:Adam Driver
“The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.” PeopleRealRealityRoomsVirtueFiveFourCuttingTeamStandardsShotsBuiltConstantDigitalGet AwayDozenRobotsDomainYardsticks Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.” PeopleWayLooksIdeasDifferentHappensTeamProudExpectationsBoringThings HappenDifferent WaysChemistryAgain And AgainProud Of YouProud Of Yourself Author:A. R. Rahman
“But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.” PeopleIdeasTeamDesignInspireBlessedBrilliantParisRelyGreat PeopleInspirational TeamStylistGreat Design Author:Marc Jacobs
“Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.” PeopleYearsArtistNamesCreativeDoorsTeamDesignCreative PeopleJacobCollaboratorsLouis VuittonCreative Design Author:Marc Jacobs
“Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.” PeopleDifferentMomentsTogetherGenerationsHappenedTeamMembersFamily MembersDifferent Generations Author:Bill Simmons
“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.” PeopleKnowsMindWellsStillsHomeArtistCoursesPartyCareersLaughingPiecesGroupsTeamChangedResponseBlowListsShouldersStayingComing HomeKnow MeGroundedMy Best FriendGroup Of Friends Author:Adele
“Of course, here's the weird part. After I fought my dad, all of a sudden we're buddies now. Like he's my friend now, we start hanging out. But we're still the same people. So we'd go out on Sunday, you know, and just be hanging out, then he'd, like, pick a guy, and we'd just go beat the crap out of that guy as a team. Memories, huh?” PeopleKnowsStillsGuyCoursesMemoriesTeamDadBeatsPicksMy FriendsMy DadSundayHanging OutCrapBuddyThat Guy Author:Christopher Titus
“If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.” PeopleIfsBigsTogetherDifferencesTeamWorking Together Author:Steve Case
“The White House New Media team circulates multiple highlights each day of what people are looking for online - Twitter trending topics, popular Google searches, etc. - and it gives us a sense of what's breaking through, what isn't, and a sanity check for what the larger online population cares about at any given time.” PeopleGivingCareHouseGivenWhiteTeamMediaPopulationChecksEach DayEtcOnlineWhite HouseSanityMultipleGoogleTopicsHighlightsNew MediaGoogle Search Author:Daniel Pfeiffer
“I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.” PeopleHouseWhiteTeamCallingRight NowClintonFolksRussiaBarackIranWhite HouseAllowingSyriaRecklessUkraineInvitingReformersAssadCrimea Author:Chris Christie
“I live with all these people, I live with four people that are involved with my music and I call 'em my team and that's what we call GoodLife.” PeopleFourTeamInvolvedEms Author:SonReal
“I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWinningNiceTeamRight NowRetiredNice ThingsBarcelonaArgentina Author:Lionel Messi
“Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.” PeopleIfsMightLosesSituationLeaderTeamBuildingWheelsSpokesCollapseConnectingWagonsRimsHubWagon Wheels Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.” PeopleKnowsWorldIdeasTalkingPlayerTeamFootballEqualNo IdeaCompareRepeatsTransformedEmbarrassingApprenticeMaradona Author:Sergio Aguero
“Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.” PeopleFirstsImportantTeamDesignRateReportsHierarchyClarifying Author:Warren Buffett
“Yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced his new economic team. You know what he should do? Hire those people who were in charge of his fundraising campaign. We can pay this thing off in like a week.” PeopleKnowsShouldPresidentPayWeekTeamEconomicCampaignsYesterdayBarackFundraising Author:Jay Leno
“I'm in love with football, but I just needed to recapture that strength to train and play. So many people helped me along the way that I'm afraid to leave anyone out. Above all, though, I want to mention the help of my medical team that has been working alongside me for the past two years.” PeopleWayWantYearsHas BeensTwoPlayHelpingPastTeamFootballNeededTrainMedicalTwo Years Author:Cristiano Ronaldo
“Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWellsAttentionStudyTeamGood Team Author:Kamerion Wimbley
“You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.” PeopleIfsTryingFacesFallEffortCareersTeamFrontsBest WorkTeam Effort Author:Michael Franzese
“For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesStillsTwoDifferentGuyEnergyStuffBitsTeamDyingLittle BitDown AndYeahMonsters Author:Darryl Dawkins
“The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.” PeopleReasonNumbersPlayerTeam Author:Moses Malone
“I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of powerful people or evasion masters who are so used to this routine - the theatricality of press conferences and stage-managed interviews and teams of handlers?” PeopleThinkingPastUsedSoundChallengesPowerfulTeamStageMastersBeatsPressesInterviewsRoutineBitesReportersConferencesEvasionPress ConferencesSound BitesDaily Challenges Author:Sarah Stillman
“I'm certainly not an expert and I imagine I'll spend my life figuring it out. What I do know, is that you can't take it all on yourself: find amazing people to collaborate with, build a team, and support other people doing the same. When you share your goals and ambitions with other people and they share with you, you exist in an energizing cycle of always creating new things with people that believe in you.” PeopleKnowsBelieveGoalSupportImagineTeamShareAmbitionCreatingExpertsCyclesNew ThingsBelieve In YouAmazing PeopleEnergizingGoals And AmbitionsFiguring ItCreating New Things Author:Karlie Kloss
“I would like to thank all the people who've said such nice things about it. Team Batman is giving it our collective all for you. We're trying hard to not let you down.” PeopleGivingTryingSaidHardNiceTeamCollectivesNice ThingsTrying Hard Author:Greg Capullo
“Honestly, I think winning changes all of that. It doesn't matter where you are - it could be Timbuktu - if you win, people will watch, they'll follow and they'll support. It's my responsibility to put a team on the floor that will win, and that attracts players. Look at the teams that have been successful in the NBA. Yes, you have big, glamorous cities like L.A. But Miami has won, and so has San Antonio. Oklahoma City is a very successful team. They're not the biggest markets.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksHas BeensMatterBigsWinningCitiesResponsibilityWatchesSupportSuccessfulPlayerTeamHonestlyNbaWhere You AreGlamorousMiamiOklahomaAntonioSan AntonioOklahoma CityTimbuktuSuccessful Team Author:Masai Ujiri
“Baseball is a set of individuals doing their thing in the same team, but it's much more individual. In basketball people are making real time decisions about who gets the ball, do we trust everybody out on the court, and the analytics certainly don't show you all those subtle dynamics, but they're very important.” PeopleImportantRealShowsIndividualDecisionTeamBasketballBaseballBallsCourtSubtleDynamicsAnalytics Author:Steve Ballmer
“There were 31 teams that didn't think I was as good as the guys taken off the board. That's no disrespect to the talented players that they are, but I'm confident in my abilities and every time I go out there I want people to wonder why I wasn't on their board and why they didn't try to pick me up.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingGuyAbilityWonderTakenPlayerTeamPicksBoardsDisrespectPick MePick Me Up Author:Justin Cole
“I mean, if they're doing a television show every night like Jon Stewart, or Ellen, or David Letterman, then they have their bunch of people who are sitting on a payroll someplace, who are coming up with material every day of the week. Those are the people who wind up doing the bulk of the work for them when they host the thing, because that's their team.” PeopleIfsMeanShowsNightWeekTeamTelevisionWindMaterialsSittingBunchHostEvery NightTelevision ShowsPayrollDays Of The WeekLetterman Author:Bruce Vilanch
“This is I think a dramatic point for conservatives. They are waking up to the fact that this guy, that Donald Trump has an ability to speak to people who they thought were theirs ideologically, people who they thought were a part of their team.” PeopleThinkingFactsGuySpeakAbilityTeamTrumpWake UpDramaticWakingThis GuyAbility To Speak Author:Ben Domenech
“The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.” PeopleSecretStepsTeamSolutionsDrawsPreparedBe PreparedStep UpInstill Author:Kevin Allen
“My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this."” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenNeedsMightWaitingEnjoyCareersTeamHarderYeahDesperateBegging Author:Meghan Trainor
“When teams win and play well, everyone benefits from a financial standpoint. But everyone takes pride in people being able to achieve at that level.” PeopleWellsPlayAbleWinningLevelsTeamAchievePrideBenefitsFinancialStandpoint Author:Brendan Daly
“You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, "Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page" or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.” PeopleMenWayPersonsTwoRealFightingSoundBlackTechnologyTeamPagesPicksLipsDragCentsSpectatorsUpdatesFacebook PageTwo CentsStatus Updates Author:Bradford Cox