Team Size Quotes

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

It is impossible to play the best of nines and expect the matches to finish on time.

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

I always work with 18 friends.

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

The more bodies you have out there, the more affiliations - ultimately the stronger your race team is going to be.

When you are in a big team, there's time when you can stay out.

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh in and you have to listen to all of them because they hired you. With TV, it's a way smaller scale, with only a few people weighing in.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

Sometimes when I watch a game, there are often more wide receivers on the field than we had on our whole team.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

I saw the yearbook picture. There was six of them! I ain't have six friends in high school, I don't have six friends now! That's three on three with a half court.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

When you have a small, balanced squad, you can work better. First of all everyone is involved in every squad list, a meeting can be a good training session.

I guess if you include contractors that are six or seven people working on reddit, but when we got acquired there were basically three and then in the years since, we've added three more developer hires full time, and a community manger. But the site is still remarkably small.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

You want to be inclusive, but you can't be to the extent of having so many people involved that it slows you down.

With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.

Playing big teams is something I really enjoy - the bigger the team the better.

I think because of how big the women's teams at Lyon and PSG are, the expectation on the team and the huge fan base - it leaves the door open for so much media. But I think that's a good thing.