Richard Levin Quotes

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

People say the most important thing is building a world-class team.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

I have always really enjoyed building great teams that execute a great vision.

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putting a team on the field and you want to formulate how to make the best game out of these players.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

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

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.

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

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.