Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

My drive is other people's success.

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

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

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.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.

Many people have helped me during my career and without them and fantastic team-mates and coaches it would not have been possible to achieve all that I have.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

It's awesome for your coach to trust you and have confidence in you.

Our success multiplies each time we lead someone else to success.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

He's helped me do so much in my career, helped me be the player that I am. If there's no Larry Brown, then there's no MVP, Allen Iverson.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.