Dabo Swinney Quotes

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

The key to good management is keeping the guys on your team who hate your guts away from the guys who haven't made up their minds.

The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

As a manager, you manage a team and there are good periods where there are good feelings in the group.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

I think that's good for a coach to have two sides: the jokey side and the fiery side.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a day to day basis. Anyone that's good can't be stifled in any way. I don't baby people.

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

The head coach is the chemist.

How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

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.

Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake.

As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

People want to see how we get teams to come together so quickly. They want to see how we get young guys to play so hard and so unselfish. I'm fine with that. I have no problem sharing that.