Justin Guarini Quotes

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

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.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of what the issues are... Just the same way that people like a good painting, I think people really like understanding, knowing about the world.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.