Rafael Benitez Quotes

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.

I've run a very successful business, and I think I can also run a very successful team.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership and management are not synonymous.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

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.

If I have a really bad cook or a bad manager or bad sous-chef, I previously would have fired them or lost my temper. But now I realize that if I'm so right, then I should be able to communicate it so clearly that they get it.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.