Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I like being a leader in real life.

I can lead my team.

I've always tried to be a leader.

I'm a leader.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

Leadership is influence.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

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.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

If I have one skill as a manager, I can make things extremely clear.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

As a leader, you want your team to play as you are.

I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of TV movies, I began to see that authority came with the job. So I began to relax and let more people into the process, and my work really improved.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I had to learn to trust people, and I realized that success was going to be born in hiring really bright people - very self-motivated, very able to make good judgment calls day in and day out.

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, being student body president and leading others and learning how to effectively help people on the team in a way that's not as direct.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.