Quotes about tea
team directors inspirational-team
I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team. Marc Jacobs
team blessed ideas
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
team engineering estonia
Skype has a great engineering team, which I like to describe as 'all of Estonia.' Marc Andreessen
teacher looks crafts
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread a text, you teach yourself something about craft. Sandra Cisneros
teaching men shoes
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe. Samuel Johnson
teacher angel men
Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
team integrity people
In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity. Sam Wyly
teaching perspective catholic
Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings. Salvatore J. Cordileone
teaching natural
Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it. Sam Abell
teacher belief
It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.
teaching photographer speak
I can't speak for other photographers, but the photographers who went forward strongly when the so-called "official" part of their career ended, to me, were those who had taught. Teaching enriches and enlivens one's work.
teacher brother teaching
I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the Geographic I was a teacher. Plus my parents were teachers and my brother and my grandparents. So it was the culture of our family to think about teaching, to talk about teaching, to talk about teachers.
team responsibility credit
You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff. Sam Altman
team fire office
You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.
team fire employee
... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.
team fire long
Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast...
team thinking firsts
I think the best thing you can do is be aware that as a first time founder you are likely to be a very bad manager.
team forget employee
One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.
team writing promise
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.
team add employee
Employees will only add more value over time.
team thinking employee
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
team thinking giving
I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
team decision needs
If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.
team decision makers
You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.
team thinking bars
... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
team founders equity
We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.
team people done
You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.
team animal able
... you should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.
team might firsts
If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
team firsts facts
A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.
team firsts employee
... companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees never recover from it...
team needs desperate
At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.
team years numbers
Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.