Ben Vereen Quotes

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

I've learned so much from Mourinho and love being in his team and learning new roles.

When you are working with someone who is so aware of what they do, you become better, too.

To be able to work with someone who you learn so much from is a really valuable experience.

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with.

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

I only learn from the people I work with.

Every person I work with, I learn something from.

As I progressed in the firm, I learnt the craft, and as I learnt my craft, my partners and the firm threw up different opportunities.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.