Adam Neumann Quotes

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Instead of making people victims of people who are successful, we should be telling people, 'Look, you are having a hard time, I feel bad for you. Let's look at what you're doing, let's teach you how to succeed. Let's give you the tools to succeed as opposed to turning everybody into victims.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

When you reach a certain point I feel like you have to go outside and find your own resources and coach and trainer in order to make it to the top.

One of my favorite things about being the host of 'The School of Greatness' is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.

I'm good at what I do and still improving as I learn from mentors, founders, partners, friends, family, strangers, my own investors, and the experience itself.

When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.

I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

I always tell young people: When you meet someone successful, ask them as many questions as you can. Because there's nothing more successful people love - nothing more - than talking about their successes, and you can learn a lot in that.

Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.

I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit.

There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

Learning from my mistakes at the same time being criticized by Triple H and Ric Flair made me what I am today.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.