Jim Jarmusch Quotes

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.

Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

Every team has problems. Championship teams have problems and whatnot.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

When you get everybody going in the right direction you can do some great things, and that's in any business.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I just like working with smart people.

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.