Ryan Babel Quotes

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.