Chad Stahelski Quotes

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

In order to be the best, you have to be around the best.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

I learned from everybody whose staff I was on. You always learn something.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

I think I'm always willing to learn and listen to the coaches and the manager and listen to the advice of the players in the team as well, so whenever I get the advice, I try to take it on board and just try to help myself get better.

I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

No matter whether someone has been in the business longer than you or for less time, you can learn something from any of them.

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.