Kenneth Langone Quotes

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

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

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

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.

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

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

Few people would doubt that Mark Zuckerberg would build a great product. But I, at least, would never have expected him to become so great at hiring, motivating, managing, and ultimately getting whatever it is his company needs from people.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

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.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

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

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

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

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.