David Neeleman Quotes

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I don't put together cars, I put together people.

Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

Know what your people are like, and make sure they do their jobs excellently.

I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.

If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.

Women often are so focused on getting their jobs done well that they forget that building relationships is a key part of being a leader - and increasingly so, the higher you go.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

It's really fun to work with new people who you've never met before.

One of my strengths is connecting with the players.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

I just think it's great in cricket to come into a team environment. It's the first time I've ever experienced it.

Being in the clubhouse, talking to the veterans, talking to guys who have been here, getting to know everybody, getting the personalities, you can actually learn a lot from the other players in the league.

I always want there to be room for people to connect. That is so important, especially in an office.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.

I think the best thing that Jonathan and I have done is… having really strong people working with us - our work environment and all of our employees and everybody, we're like one big family.

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.