Tommy Lasorda Quotes

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

Those who serve as ministers can be compared to hands: reaching up, they take care of the head; reaching down, they take care of the feet.

Big people take care of little people; we must live up to that trust.

I let the coach do his job.

Love never offers to anyone wings so easy that he does not hold him back with his other hand.

Someone's going to be able to take good care of my sister. She knows how to be taken care of.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

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

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I'm there for my friends, and I'd like to think I'm there for my employees.

I believe in delegating power.

Leadership and partnership go together.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

My manager has been my manager since I was 17, and he says that he's supposed to be smart for me when I can't do it for myself.

When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

There are two types of directors: the directors who take and directors who give.

Followship is just as important as leadership. It's very important that you'll know if you're a great leader because you will have awesome followship. And the people behind you will take that burden of responsibility.