Rene Redzepi Quotes

Kids raised to be pampered and spoiled don't really end up being good leaders. Leaders need to be independent minded and confident.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.

Teams know what I bring to the table.

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

'Toybox' is that kind of game that will stretch your mental capacity by doing very simple things like solving an easy puzzle of shooting aliens. You'll just need to do everything at the same time to make it through alive. Just to make things tricky, the tasks change every week so you can't get used to any set.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.