Steve Jobs Quotes

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

Leadership is influence.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The greatest luck that I've had has been the ability to find men and women who came into my administration who worked with me and brought extraordinary talents that we were able to take full advantage of.

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

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

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 is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

When you're a manager, we sometimes speak too much about tactics, but the most difficult thing for a manager is to get the best from his best players.

Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.

All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.

Managers are driving the ship, so to speak, without actually being on the pitch, so every manager I've worked under here definitely deserves credit.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

I would like to be a manager, to organize everything in training, see if my philosophy could work, and give it to the team.

I know how important it is to take different tactics from different managers on board.