Donny Deutsch Quotes

#1. I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

Donny Deutsch

#2. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Donny Deutsch

#3. You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.

Donny Deutsch

#4. I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.

Donny Deutsch

#5. Failure is not an option on this one.

Donny Deutsch

#6. My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

Donny Deutsch

#7. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.

Donny Deutsch

#8. Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

Donny Deutsch

#9. The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?

Donny Deutsch

#10. If you can't embrace failure, or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful.

Donny Deutsch

#11. The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

Donny Deutsch

#12. That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.

Donny Deutsch

#13. I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

Donny Deutsch

#14. If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

Donny Deutsch

#15. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

Donny Deutsch

#16. I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

Donny Deutsch

#17. The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

Donny Deutsch

#18. Every business is about understanding people. Which people you have to get through. Which people you have to embrace. Which people you have to jump over. Which people you have to push out of the way. That's the game.

Donny Deutsch

#19. When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Donny Deutsch

#20. The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

Donny Deutsch

#21. It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.

Donny Deutsch

#22. Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.

Donny Deutsch

#23. The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

Donny Deutsch

#24. You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights ...

Donny Deutsch

#25. I don't have a favorite medium; I was brought up on TV. so I am clearly of the TV generation, but it depends on what you are trying to sell; sometimes a fully integrated solution, sometimes a pure Internet solution, sometimes a pure billboard solution.

Donny Deutsch