Marouane Fellaini Quotes

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

I probably do better when I'm in charge. But it's good to be able to be a part of something and be a supporter and help make a project work.

The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

When you see something that needs to be done, you do it.

Whoever's in the game has got to be ready to play, take the scout serious and understand what we're doing. If you don't know what to do, ask questions.

I like to solve problems. I know it is a skill set, but it's also an obligation. I grew up with parents who believe that you don't simply complain: you try to find solutions and fix what's in front of you.

I definitely feel like I can fulfill any role that a team needs me to fulfill.

I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn't take no for an answer - they're going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don't blame anybody else. And they're dreamers in one sense but they're also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.