Derek Jeter Quotes

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

I'm 100 per cent involved in everything that happens with my name, and I think if you're not, then there's something wrong.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

When you commit to something, you don't want to let your fellow people and yourself down.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.

I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.

When you feel like this isn't your business, get out of the business.

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success.

Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

My role isn't just receiving.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it.

Normally I'm the type who wouldn't bail on a responsibility unless dead on the side of the road, and I believe deeply in the importance of continuing to follow our own paths.

I gotta think that one that becomes a philosophy of work, which is "no excuses."

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it. It humbles me that companies want me. It's a challenge to uphold their values and make their product look good. I take that personally.

My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love what you're doing?' 'Yes.' 'Then be aware, or you're going to lose it.'

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do.

It's about working when nobody's watching.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.

I stand behind everything I've done.

Decisions are made by those who show up.