Richard Quest Quotes

I want good work.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'

I joined Bloomberg Television as an anchor in 2011 after spending fourteen years on Wall Street. In many ways, the industries are similar: it's about relationship-building, trust, and problem solving.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Television today is the stage on which the drama of politics is played out.

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

I just met your Chiefs of Staff. They really know what they are doing,

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.

I had some very powerful minds working with me.

I would say my strengths are vision and strategy.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

One of the things I was taught was how you deal with language. It's important, very important in comedy.

Sometimes my passes don't find people, but I do try and create.

Be it films or shows or plays, it's the content that matters the most.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.

I am very balanced. I care passionately about people and customers but also about the numbers, and hopefully that view brings something to the party.

When I look for people to work with, I'm just looking for talented people.

I look at the group I've got and then I decide what strengths and weaknesses they have and then I formulate an appropriate way the players can work in order to be collectively successful.