John Hickenlooper Quotes

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.

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

The State of Virginia is similar to a great business corporation... and should be conducted with the same efficiency and economy as any private business.

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.

There is no reason why government should not be as efficient as any good business.

I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Given my earlier experience as the longest served CM of the erstwhile undivided A.P., I focused on choosing right people in the right place with clear priorities in the departments that were vital to attract large-scale investments into the state.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.

The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.

The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many.

Today, we should look for people with great organizational skills to run a government - not just leaders, who are good with people.

To improve teams like Newcastle, if you do the right things, it is enough to be stronger and bigger and compete.

Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.

What you have to have is very smart, motivated, dedicated, and focused engineers and focus them on the right goal.

If there is increased competition, it is only good for the team.

It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.