James Laughlin Quotes

Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.

I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer.

It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

I look for something unique, and I look for people who haven't reached their potential. I think I'm pretty good at developing talent.

I came to filmmaking as an actor looking for great characters and great opportunities, both of which are kind of hard to come by. It turns out I really love the process. And, it's exciting to be able to take my career by the reigns and make things happen for myself. Hopefully, in doing so, more opportunities will become available to me.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Business is where you practice your human skills. It's where you grow.

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Today, when I hire, I look for people who want to be trained and molded.

It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

We use shorts at the studio extensively to develop talent. I always love to give opportunities for young story people, animators, layout people something like that to take the next step up in their career and try things out.

I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.

I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors.