Matthew Stewart Quotes

My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I'm a teamworker.

My idea is bring in good people and then get out of their way.

Whether you're a founder, a leader, or an individual contributor, building a strong team is critical to your success.

As you develop relationships in your team you have to learn how your teammates react to being yelled at or how to put your arm around them and show them how to do things. You have to build those relationships up and understand who that person is and how they respond and choose your way to lead them to hopefully help everyone out.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

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

Trying to get it together with me as a director was impossible. No one wanted to work with me.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

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

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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.