Joey Soloway Quotes

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!

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

You'll get the maximum potential out of everyone on your team when you create harmony, when you treat each employee well.

When you have a happy atmosphere, people work better.

First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

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

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

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun.

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.

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.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

I work best when people are here to puncture me.

In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage every single person in the room. For some, the right kind of play can spell the difference between becoming part of something, and the lifelong feeling that they're not meant to take part.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.