Richard Hatch Quotes

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

It takes vision and courage to create

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

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

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.

I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.