Markus Persson Quotes

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.

My style is to keep folks in place who are good managers and want to win.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

I have a great team at WME.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

I love my business. I love my employees.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

To get things done, you have to get people together.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

Leadership is influence.

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well treated.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.