Casey Affleck Quotes

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

You can never lead unless you follow.

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.

In a world of rapid change, an agile and adaptable mind, a pragmatic and cooperative temperament, a strong ethical orientation - these are increasingly the keys to effective leadership. And I would add to this list a capacity for intellectual humility which keeps one’s mind constantly open to a variety of viewpoints and which welcomes pluralistic exchange.

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

All men are created to lead, but we need somebody to lead us.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Leadership is what you need to learn next

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.