Danny Meyer Quotes

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

Some of the people on the teams I've been on need to be uplifted and kind of loved on. And some people don't need that at all - they need to be pushed; more hyped up.

Unai's very positive and always telling you to express yourself, but also he's got that thing where he'll tell you if you do something wrong.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

I make sure when I direct that it's a very joy-based set that hopefully is filled with a lot of respect.

I coach for my dad's academy. Sometimes it's just about being there - it's not just the coaching - it's seeing that you are there to inspire or they are trying to impress you.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

As for whether I am a 'new age guru', I am not at all. I help companies build employees who lead without a title and become high performers.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.