DanTDM Quotes

I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues.

Xavier has been the ultimate role model. No matter how far away we are geographically, working together is something we feed off of.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together.

Turf battles won't win this war. Teamwork will.

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.

What I really want are students who want to partner with other people, to be part of an organization and to influence people so that they can accomplish things that the organization would not have accomplished otherwise.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

The sense of acting being teamwork was a mentality that I took from school: I studied with wonderful people, and I wanted them to be proud of me.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.