Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Anytime Tom Watson is on your team, you've won. His passion, professionalism, attention to detail, and leadership are unparalleled.

In any situation in order to excel and reach the pinnacle with a group of people, there have to be sacrifices.

I do everything I can for the team's success.

Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.

All I can do is work hard, prepare the players properly, give them everything I've got and they give me everything they've got.

I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

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.

Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.

Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

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

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.