Andrew Mason Quotes

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

There is a business side to me and a spiritual side.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring to that world. It helps to know what you're good at.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Energy and patience in business are two indispensable elements of success.

To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

What do I think of myself? I know my worth. I know my value. I know I have to lead by example. I can't just be all over the place. I put the energy out that I want given back to me. And again, I'm true to me.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

I don't ever really sit back and look at roles I've taken and look at any similarities.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

Most of the CEO's who fail think they will find the solution to their problems in Finance, Marketing, Strategic Planning, etc., but they don't look for the solution to their problems inside themselves.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.