Joseph Benavidez Quotes

I try to work hard, be professional, be fun to work with, and be accountable.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication.

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

Throughout my life and career, I have continually been impressed with the importance of integrity - whether it was growing up as a Boy Scout, working in one of my first jobs as a university janitor, or being a leader in a Fortune 500 company.

Discipline is a big thing for me, you have to respect the workplace and your team-mate.

It's about how you handle yourself, how you take care of your business, how you present yourself in front of the team, how you hold other people accountable. And ultimately, performing.

In my real life, hard work, doing my job, working well with others and finding solutions without drama has never gotten me fired before.

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

You've got to have the skills. You've got to have a great attitude because, if you don't, nobody will want to deal with you.

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

I just try to be the same guy I've always been. Calm, collected, and being a good decision-maker and delivering the ball to the right guys.

I have lived my life that way and I expect the people who work for me to be the same way.

No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

In life, you don't judge people on how they are at home, you judge them on how they are at work.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.