Harold S. Geneen Quotes

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

Leaders are made, they are not born

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

With every coach you work with, you learn something. Then, at the end of your career, when you become a trainer, you take something from every coach that you think is useful for you.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

I was mentored in high school through the National Hispanic Institute and I did the same for girls when I got older.

We really believe that mentorship is a powerful tool.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

As far as my leadership style is concerned what makes me happiest is fulfilling my potential and helping others realize theirs. If you have really done that then the rest of it is actually very simple.

I began my journey as a captain when I was just 21-22 and leading the Indian side for so many years has helped me also grow as a person. My growth as a person pretty much has happened on the ground along with teammates.

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it is essential that their leader leave them, for without his absence they cannot develop themselves. Plants always remain small under a big tree.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Leaders aren't born they are made.