Maverick Carter Quotes

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

Begin with the end in mind.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

In a partnership, it is good to have two partners who have complementary means of action, under the assumption that these two partners sufficiently talk to each other to find out what they want to do together

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.