Lily Collins Quotes

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

I'm really a big believer in working with people. It's challenging for me to come into already integrated brands and find a way where I can put my own flair on it.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader here because you're not going to be using ideas, you're not going to have innovation, you're not going to fully develop your people. And if you're working in a group and you don't challenge, then you're not really doing your job.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

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

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I love collaborating with different people.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

A good head has one hundred hands.

There are certain people you don't have to worry about on set.

As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.