Theo Epstein Quotes

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

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

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

I'm a person who believes in close monitoring and knowing what everyone on the staff is doing.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get right as the CEO.

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

The organization reflects the behavior and characteristics of the CEO, and that establishes the culture. Foster an environment of open communication, and the organization inherits a culture of open communication.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.