Samoa Joe Quotes

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

Whether it's countries or companies, it's about putting the best person in the job who can unite people and create value.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments.

Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.

I am proud of the part I have played in the development of Bolton.

A dysfunctional team means a dysfunctional - and likely doomed - company.

My coaches, trainer and agency have all helped make me the player and the business that I am today.

As a professional, you want to get as much as you can out of your career, play at the top level, and win trophies. Playing with top players at Manchester City, I've got a great chance of doing that, and I just want to keep improving.

I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.

I think I maximised my opportunity at Bolton, changing the mindset of the people from when I arrived till the time I left.

I think playing with great players and great teams, I've been given opportunities to succeed.

We have always been a nation that has celebrated success of various kinds. The kid that gets the honor roll, the individual worker that gets a promotion, the person that gets a better job. And in fact, the person that builds a business. And by the way, if you have a business and you started it, you did build it. And you deserve credit for that.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Companies and football teams have become successful precisely because of how diverse they are.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

Hopefully my era can help build the game.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.