Stanley A. McChrystal Quotes

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Mobilize people and resources to get results, Not small results but big results. Spend 80% of your time doing development work. Only 20% your time doing administrative work. Never be bureaucrats. Always be leaders.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

You need to know how to put a mission together to victory!

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.

What matters is getting the best out of the squad you have.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.