Eric Ripert Quotes

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

You might be the leader of the team, but without the rest of the team, you're not doing anything. I think that's the way I look at my job as the lead of a TV show.

You can’t do leadership alone.

That's the only thing that got me here is my teammates. My teammates and my coach. That's the only reason I'm here.

Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.

This game we play is the ultimate total team game. Quarterback by himself isn't winning it. You got 11-12 coaches, you've got a lot of people that have a hand in it.

You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.

Stars don't necessarily make a good team and that is what we must learn.

A good team needs time to play together.

I think the team is always better than the individual player.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

When you work in fashion, you need to work as a team. You cannot do anything on your own.

As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was the inability to hold together. We should have learnt from the great football teams. The players may not like each other. They have egos, they have their own ambitions, they have different personalities, but they are still bloody good teams.

A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

Trust is the glue that holds an org together & the lubricant that moves it forward.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.