Sam Altman Quotes

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.

When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.

I learned quickly that motivating people would be the most important responsibility of my career.

Look, I don't really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate.

A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.

Have the right people in the right places, working together

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

I think I'm a great organizer. Not that I'm organized, but I'm a great organizer of other people.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.