Mike Wallace Quotes

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?

I cannot get to the top on my own. Everyone is important to me. Everyone has played a part in my success, and I try to show that.

What I don't want to be is the most important person of the club. If we win a game, it was the players who played very well.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

There is no shame in taking pride in achievements or position. But nobody gets to the top alone.

I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.

There can be a lot done if you are not so particular about who gets credit for it.

You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

Success is best when it's shared.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am.

I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.

With each day, I realize more and more that my mahatmaship, which is mere adornment, depends on others. I have shown with the glory borrowed from my innumerable coworkers.

The important thing is the solution to the problem, not who gets the credit.

I learned early on that success is best if it is shared.