Mao Zedong Quotes

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

In the end, playing for England means very little if you don't see the rest of the world around you. It is why I hate prima donnas and arrogance.

I just think I have always had a good attitude about everything and never got ahead of myself. No one wants to work with a jerk.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.

I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

I don't really talk about myself. I always talk about what could make the team better.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

I've always had a good relationship with superstar players. I don't really demand the ball a lot.

Instead of showing up to let everyone know how great we are, show up to find out how great everyone else is.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego.

Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

I don't play music very well, so I've always surrounded myself with people who played a lot better than I did. I'm a loyal person, and I just tend to leave it to the experts.