Assemble High Performing Teams Quotes

“Micromanage the process, not the people.”

“Don't move information to authority, move authority to the information.”

“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

“It is the personalities behind a business which determine the measure of success the business will enjoy.”

“You’ve got to allow people to make mistakes, even though your gut tells you that the guy is going to get torched.”

“An entrepreneur who is afraid to hire people who can do something better than he can is doomed.”

“The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.”

“The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.”

“Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.”

“Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”

“Delegation has been a secret of my success for five decades. Asking for support is a strength, not a weakness. If you try to do everything yourself, you won’t succeed and will make yourself miserable along the way.”

“If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.”

“The most important success factor in your work is who you choose to work with.”

“Every family, team, and organization needs reliability just as much as they need talent.”

“What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.”

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.”

“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.”

“People are not your most important asset. The right people are.”

“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.”

“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline-a problem that largely goes away if you have the right people in the first place.”

“When in doubt, don’t hire-keep looking.”

“Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time… if you have the right people on the bus, they will be self-motivated.”

“You can buy a person’s hand, but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can’t buy his brain. That’s where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness.”

“Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best. Outside the core competencies, hire people that fit your culture but aren’t as expensive to pay.”

“The people I don’t like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.”