Michael Laudrup Quotes

Management has never been the most important thing for me.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

My goal is to stay happy in my work and to do quality work.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I should have just become a manager.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I was a coach at Spurs for 15 years. I did want to go into management but what was important to me was doing a very good job in whatever capacity I was employed.

I focus every day on my career.

I don't think everyone wants to be a CEO.

I know I won't be a manager, I don't want to do it, never.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.