Tim Cook Quotes

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.

As far as my leadership style is concerned what makes me happiest is fulfilling my potential and helping others realize theirs. If you have really done that then the rest of it is actually very simple.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

I do feel that whatever happens, it's important to work with great people and do something great. That's how I feel.

Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.

Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

The most precious contribution we can make here on Earth is to create the lives we want to be living, communicating in all ways, to everyone around us, that success is really possible.

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

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

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

My drive is other people's success.