Jochen Zeitz Quotes

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I've had a bit of experience at lots and lots of different arenas as it were, some of them completely creative, some of them quite technical. The interesting thing is, is that I found that the technical arenas actually are also very creative or can be very creative.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

It would be counterproductive to tell people exactly what they are supposed to do and exactly how they are supposed to do it to a point where they become more concerned about your expectations than about completing their work in a quality way.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.