Laurie Anderson Quotes

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

So many people from the West are coming into India, all the studios have come into India, and they're making films here, whether that's Fox, Warner Bros, Disney, everyone. That stands as testament for us, so why are we afraid of sharing our talent with the world? We must.

To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.

Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

We could build just about anything that you could dream of. But that's not the question. The thing that Beats provides us is a head start. They provide us with incredible people that don't grow on trees.

I am very lucky in my team. They sit opposite me, and I get to see them every day sitting there staring at the seating chart, not doing much. It is almost like a chess game.

People laugh at my analogy in most cases - I go, 'Yeah, everything looks awesome on paper until you stick six guys in a submarine and go, 'Okay, go out and conquer America.''

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.

The Olympics is all about inclusion, coming together for sport. That's the footprint I want to leave.

I have been in many teams that have had loads of talent but did not make it through and been with teams that did not have that much talent and ended up being champions.

That is what a good manager does - you study and think and discuss, and you come up with a model of playing.