Maynard Webb famous quotes

03-25-2025

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.
-- Maynard Webb

#Soccer #Meaningful #Team
All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.
-- Maynard Webb

#Creating #People #Benefits
I used to pride myself on being the first in the office in the morning and one of the last to leave at night. Now, that's so dated: It's not about effort, it's about outcomes.
-- Maynard Webb

#Morning #Pride #Night
In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.
-- Maynard Webb

#Opportunity #Talking #Google
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
-- Maynard Webb

#Independent #Long #Quality
It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.
-- Maynard Webb

#Destiny #Yield #Common Sense
It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.
-- Maynard Webb

#Long #Perception #World
Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.
-- Maynard Webb

#Technology #Opportunity #Training
The best way to have your people be happy and satisfied is to earn the right to have them come back to work for you the next day, knowing that there are tons of other places.
-- Maynard Webb

#Knowing #People #Way
The notions of going to work, putting in set hours, and getting 'face time' are increasingly antiquated ideas. Because of technology we have entered a modern era of work where we can work from wherever we want, whenever we want and we can be more productive and make greater contributions than ever before.
-- Maynard Webb

#Technology #Ideas #Want
There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.
-- Maynard Webb

#Zero #Giving Up #Sleep
There's never been a better time to change the way you think. Replace every 'I can't' with 'How can I?' It might sound like semantics, but I promise it will bring whatever you want to accomplish much closer to becoming a reality.
-- Maynard Webb

#Reality #Thinking #Promise
I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.
-- Maynard Webb

#Jobs #Men #Years
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
-- Maynard Webb

#Technology #People #Together
Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.
-- Maynard Webb

#Cost #Want #Modern
As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.
-- Maynard Webb

#Killers #Next #Obsessed
Every day I am inspired by what's possible.
-- Maynard Webb

#Inspired
Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.
-- Maynard Webb

#Jobs #Economy
There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.
-- Maynard Webb

#Meaningful #Jobs #Talent
With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.
-- Maynard Webb

#Sports #Numbers #Outcomes
By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.
-- Maynard Webb

#Accomplishment #Work Ethic #Directors
I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.
-- Maynard Webb

#Dedication #Impact #Entrepreneur
I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
-- Maynard Webb

#Running #Retirement #Vacation
I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.
-- Maynard Webb

#Running #Jobs #Believe
I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.
-- Maynard Webb

#Years #Entrepreneur #Innovation
Man, weâ€™ve got something special. Donâ€™t screw it up.
-- Maynard Webb

#Men #Special #Screws

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