Virgil van Dijk Quotes

It is a team game, we all play for each other; obviously we win and lose as a team, but I like to take the blame when we lose.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

For me, you understand that we always talk about a 'we' and not a 'me' thing. And we always talk as a team. We win as a team. We lose as a team.

It is a fault of the whole team if you don't deliver.

All players have equal duties and merits and share the reward and sometimes the blame.

Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame. If an officer on your team suggested something and it worked well, give them credit. If it doesn't work well, you take the blame because you made the decision.

You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ass together."

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister.

Divided responsibility is no responsibility.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit.

My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

Anytime you're playing with a team that's losing, the main guy is going to take a lot of the heat.