Scott Weiss Quotes

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

I feel like I'm constantly learning. Constantly trying to grow.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.