Brian France Quotes

I'm very much a team-oriented person. I love to have diverse viewpoints because I think we make better decisions.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decision.

I love collaborating with different voices.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.