Pep Guardiola Quotes

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

In terms of leadership, you've got to allow for people to be amazing and to contribute in a way that's meaningful. You can't hold on so tight that people don't get a chance to do what they do best.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.