Ralph Marston Quotes

Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

If you are inspiring others to do better, you're successful.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

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.

I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I learned early on that success is best if it is shared.

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

I want to do whatever will make my team win.

The biggest thing is winning. No matter what percentage, no matter what my numbers say in the sense of points, assists, rebounds and steals, it's always been about winning.

I just try to find ways to help my team win.

I have to try to help lead my team to win by any means.

I pursued to have my team win as much as we could, and it doesn't happen without great teammates.

It's not about me. It's about the organization being successful.

I feel like any team I'm on, I can help take that team to the playoffs.

I give people on my team the opportunity to excel as well, and I think that's what continues to keep me ahead. I may not be able to show or do an interview; I give them the opportunity to run the show, and that has been working.

If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.