Mikel Arteta Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Without an identity, you cannot plan and you cannot convince a player to do what you want.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

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.

As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

Leadership—not salesmanship

I could only lead if I could see the way to go, otherwise it would be a case of the blind leading the blind.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Management is different from leadership..

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

First of all, you've got to have a vision of 'What kind of program do I want to have?' Then you've got to have a plan to implement it. Then you've got to set the example that you want, develop the principles and values that are important, and get people to buy into it.