Fred DeLuca Quotes

I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.

You have to let the team develop. You can't say, 'Oh, I got empty seats, I'm going to change the team.' It just doesn't work that way.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

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

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

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

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.

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

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

I think that every manager who starts work with a team has the best expectations and is giving all he's got to improve immediately.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

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

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

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

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.