David Karp Quotes

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

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

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

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.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

As a goalkeeper, I needed good players around me. I needed Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Wayne Rooney. It's the same as a CEO.