Tibor Kalman Quotes

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I can learn very much from Ferrari because they have so much experience, and I will want to work with them to achieve the maximum I can.

I love working with people who can teach me, because they're masters of the same business I'm in.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

I surround myself by people smarter than me.

I think I've always been pretty shameless about seeking out people much smarter and much more experienced than me from the very beginning.

I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

You learn as much as you can from the people that you work with. That's why you want to surround yourself with the heaviest people that you can possibly get to.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

I just want to work with talented people and learn from them.

You learn a lot from quality players.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I was lucky to have been there with some great people. I think I learned the most from the people around me. Just when you get talented people there, like the people who you talk to. And it spurs you on.

Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You're only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.