Richard Thaler Quotes

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

Leadership means that the person in charge gets second guessed by every little twit with a mouth.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.