Tom Brady Quotes

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.

Surround yourself with great people. People are what make businesses prosper.

I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.

You're always going to get different personalities within a team.

Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity.

I'm only 27 but still I've had a lot of experience just playing with different teams, different coaches, different players.

My coach, Robert Allen, helped me a lot. He had more influence on my growth as a player than anyone else.

I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.

I've had the joy of representing some fantastic clubs, all of whom have helped to shape me in their own varying way.

I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me.

I had great teammates. Adam Jones took great care of me. Mike Gonzalez took good care of me.

It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.

I knew I was in good hands [with Didier Dubot] and we could accomplish whatever I had in mind.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

What I've learned over the years is it's so much better to surround yourself with real talent and hire real chefs. I learned more from the chefs I have working for me than you could ever imagine. There's nothing wrong with being able to create opportunities for people, and you don't have to do everything, take credit for everything, and have all the weight be on your shoulders.