Tony La Russa Quotes

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

I’m an executive now. I have to be a bigger leader, more responsible leader, more careful about how I say things….

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

Over the years I've learned that, to be a good manager, you need to have passion, and you need to have a strong character. Without those things, the job is very, very difficult.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

If I look myself as a manager, I have lot more to learn.

I've got an opinion on everything, so I should go into management.

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about standards of performance, but you also have to be incredibly tenderhearted with the people you're working with.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

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.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.