Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

I'm a planner, and most networks don't plan. Bravo doesn't plan. Bravo is lucky in a lot of ways - they've got a lot of great talent, but at the same time, they don't nurture it. They lost 'Project Runway.'

What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

Kiss is a super - they are total businessmen. They pride themselves on it.

Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.

You have got to have an agent. It's a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

I was lucky to have been able to work so closely with Vince McMahon as he was able to see up-close what I could contribute to WWE, which lead to some amazing years not only at ringside, but also in the boardroom.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

I became more part of the industry after quitting acting. I contribute greatly to the industry, as I bring in talent, provide money in the chain, and make it happen.