Ruth Porat Quotes

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

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.

Culture drives great results.

Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.

You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.

A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

It seems like those of us who run a business can't go five minutes without encountering the term "company culture." The phrase is always uttered with extreme adoration, yet the very concept seems as nebulous as it is elusive.

One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I'm present. When I'm with my employees, I'm there in the moment.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

I will never begin to know what the accountants do or what the camera guys do, as much as I try to learn just out of respect for what they do and to try to make my job as manager more efficient. The most important thing is to let those people do their jobs while making it clear what the parameters are.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

The most important thing is that you treat everybody incredibly well and lead with a bit of humility. I've found that when I go into a company to lead, it's important to have a plan and to make that plan a simple one that everybody can understand.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

I don't think that the Internet has contributed greatly to immorality.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!

The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company.