Maggie Haberman Quotes

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

When you first assemble a group, it's not a team right off the bat. It's only a collection of individuals

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

I love being able to have a team.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

I try to educate myself as much as possible, as I do with the director and the designers and everyone I used to work with. It just helps, I think, with the frame of reference for who you're working with.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

Bringing together disparate personalities to form a team is like a jigsaw puzzle. You have to ask yourself: what is the whole picture here? We want to make sure our players all fit together properly and complement each other, so that we don't have a big piece, a little piece, an oblong piece, and a round piece. If personalities work against each other, as a team you'll find yourselves spinning your wheels.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.

There's a lot of people that I disagree with that I think I could have interesting conversations with. What I don't want to get into is manufactured conflict. I would much rather talk to someone like Dr. Rhonda Patrick or Randall Carlson and be mesmerized by information. I guess in a way that's selfish, or maybe not objective of me. The older (and hopefully wiser) I get the less interested I am in conflict. I don't mind disagreeing with people in a civil way, but I definitely don't want to go out of my way to have an argument unless it's a really important subject.

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one

Building a strong team is both possible and remarkably simple. But is painfully difficult.