Glenn Kelman Quotes

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

I know what I want, and it's hard to delegate.

I am confident that I am capable of leading projects, which are even complex.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part of the job of directing is knowing when to take something on and when you shouldn't.

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.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.

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

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

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

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate resources to navigate between them.

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

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team.