Burton Richter Quotes

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

24 hours a day, I'm thinking about what we can do with this artist, what I can do myself over here, and how we can tie it all together.

To pass on your ideas and have an influence on a team really interests me.

I learned from growing a business that it's important to listen to everyone how we can do better.

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.

In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.

I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.

Americans can take on huge projects. But they need to understand why they should take on a huge project.

My job is not to make decisions but to set stretch objectives and help our managers work out how to reach them.

I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.

As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.

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

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

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.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.

I enjoy juggling four or five different projects in the air and finding connections and disconnections between them.