Ken Blanchard Quotes

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

I always say, when I work with younger actresses, "I'm here." Reese says it, too: "We've lived it. We know things. So if there's anything you want to know." I'm careful not to be the preacher, like, "Now, listen to me!" But I do want to be available. Even in terms of things like finances - where do you learn that, if you don't have people you can ask, "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

When I pictured myself in the NBA, I always imagined myself with an older guy taking me under his wing.

Canelo has experience and is a superstar. He's showed me a lot as a mentor. It's the biggest blessing that I can have.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

When you're the younger guy, you're kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you're doing. But when you're the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they're making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

I had a lot of veteran guys who taught me things.

I call him 'Daddy Coach.' He's taught me everything that he's known so I'm able to do what I'm able to do.

You are only as powerful as your mentors.

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

Some of the guys that can teach you the best never really made it just because they couldn't execute it themselves, but they can tell everybody else the reasons why everybody else made it and show you how. It's just hard to find those people.