Tim Sweeney Quotes

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

The classic problem as an entrepreneur is that they have a hard time delegating. But that's really crazy. Recruiting other executives is critical, so is dealing with customers and dealing with regulators. Those are functions that only the top founders can do.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

At the moment we need training for leadership.

Management is different from leadership..

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.

Leadership is influence.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.