Marc Randolph Quotes

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

As someone who started a company with an idea of creating a luxury brand with a soul, I needed to learn more about how I effect change.

Be thankful for all successes, lose your ego, take risks, fail fast, and if you don't absolutely love what you do, run!

That worried me early on in my career - that I would change. If I went to New York or Los Angeles that I would become somebody I wouldn't like. That person that gets a big head and starts thinking they're more special than anyone else. I never wanted to be that person.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

I have to humble myself.

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.