Chris Hughton Quotes

I got a boss mentality.

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

The best employees are those who bring real energy and initiative to the job. I like to know whether you're the kind of person who can set priorities, take initiative, and drive results right from the beginning.

But when it comes to my career, my job, something that I love so much and something that I'm passionate about, I can't let anything get in the way of that.

Whatever role I have had on the management side I pride myself on having done my best in the job. I have never shied away from that responsibility.

I was never career-oriented, not in the way other heroines are. Of course, I took my work seriously. But I never solicited work and never sought fame or money.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. Individuals like myself are often called 'workaholics'. I question this term because that implies a pathological condition or an illness. If I do what I desire more than anything else in the world and which makes me happy, such work can never be an aberration

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

Anytime Tom Watson is on your team, you've won. His passion, professionalism, attention to detail, and leadership are unparalleled.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

I try to help the team, and I know what my qualities are, how I can use it to be successful at the highest level. That does not always look so elegant.

On the driving side, I think I grew in the Nationwide Series to a point, but then coming over to the Cup side, I kind of had to grow in different ways as far as the work ethic that I had to put back into talking to my engineers a lot more and talking to my crew chief a lot more.

I'm very professional. I always want to do the best job that I can.

My biggest deal is I just want to do my job.

I work well under pressure.

The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.

I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.

A leader who is self-aware enough to know that he or she is not adept at everything is one who has taken the first step toward being a great leader.

Throughout my career I have proven that I am a man of action.

I have a job to do, and I'm going to do my best.