Clint Eastwood Quotes

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

Not a manager or an executive yet? It's not too early to practice. Many companies are always looking for people to volunteer to help coordinate happy hours, onboard new employees, or plan the holiday party.

I think it's extremely important to speak to the role of friendship in business. There's enough people talking about funding and capital. I want to talk about how important it is to surround yourself with people that have more experience than you, but also people that have different experience and interests than you.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

I've always surrounded myself with talented people, both in film and in business.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

A wise man has to always listen to the peers he surrounds around himself. That's why you surround yourself with other smart people. Captain Kirk keep Mr. Spock right beside him.

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.

I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience in administration, no experience in nonprofit; but then this phrase came into my head: I only have to be smart enough to find people who are smarter than me; I only have to be smart enough to recognize who knows more than me.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

General personal principle: You are generally successful to the degree others want you to succeed. So get adopted! And, even more importantly, it's amazing how much you can get done when you let other people take credit for it.