Kathryn Minshew Quotes

As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

There's nothing I'd say that keeps me awake at night, but I think that - when you're working with a group of people that are so beyond talented - that, every day, you wake up going, 'All right, I gotta fight to stay at the same level as these people.' That's what makes it fun.

I love hanging out with skilled and motivated people.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I work best when people are here to puncture me.

Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

The most important thing I've done at work has been to surround myself with amazing people who I trust and empower fully to do stuff better than I could.

There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good stuff. You don't want to let that person down. Ridley Scott is one of those guys.