I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‚play the game,‘ and these are the best of training for any game of life.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

If the team keeps changing then everything has to keep changing.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

In this age, I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony – even vicious harmony – on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.