Thom Tillis Quotes

Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.

True excellence is a product of synergy.

Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.

Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability.

Forget about style; worry about results.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

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

When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

No team works out teamwork.

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.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

We simply must do better.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

You don't reward reaction; you reward results.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

If you're great, I want to work with you.