Dennis Muilenburg Quotes

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

I try every day to grow more and to help the team so we can do well.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.

I was fortunate to be part of great teams that had success, and I was part of great teams that didn't have success.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

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

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

People are the key to success or extraordinary success.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.