Mark Lippert Quotes

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

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

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

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.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

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

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.