Dee Rees Quotes

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.

When you are working with someone who is so aware of what they do, you become better, too.

Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

Seek out a personal coach or mentor in the workplace. He/she should push you when you need it by encouraging and motivating you. Don't be afraid of their honesty.

When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I'm always fascinated by the 'who would you like to work with' question. I've never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.