Fred Wilson Quotes

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.

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

Even when you have skilled, motivated, hard-working people, the wrong team structure can undercut their efforts instead of catapulting them to success. A poor team structure can increase development time, reduce quality, damage morale, increase turnover, and ultimately lead to project cancellation.

The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

I think that when you are part of a football team, it is a group. That means the players and the staff, including the manager and all that administration.

What we need to do is strike the right balance in our teams for all three formats of the sport.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

People aren't the same. Business is, in my opinion, all about the team that fields the best players. It's not about an idea. An idea goes away. Somebody catches up with it. It's not about a widget.

Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

The quality of people you have around you as a manager is so vital. There are various factors that influence that process; fitness, form and the tactical approach to your opponent are all areas I review on a daily basis.

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

The coach's job is to be part servant in helping each player reach his goals within the team concept.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.

How good can we expect to be if our best player is not our best teammate

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

The greatest ally you have to get things working well and the players performing as a team is the bench. Don't be afraid to use it, either for the star player or anyone else.