Tucker Max Quotes

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company.

I love building a team around me, and being able to support a group of people is one of the best feelings I've come to know during my career; I imagine this is what a lot of business owners can relate to this.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I try to find, celebrate and teach leaders how to build platforms that will inspire others.

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

I feel like I've done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

We could all use more coaching.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

It's not my job to hold your hand. It's my job to take motivated people and show them how to become better.

I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.

One of the great things about coaching is it's a different challenge every day.

It's funny, because earlier, I used to have questions about how you coped with the seniors in the team, and now I get questions about how you're guiding these juniors.

My driving force in this business is to create and build great men, and to do that, you have to have great relationships.

Coaching Netherlands remains one of my ambitions.

I want to do this for as long as I possibly can and coach as many different teams and opportunities and different kind of personalities. I want to gobble that all up. And I want to be able to give and add value to these teams.