William Arthur Ward Quotes

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.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

If you want to lead you must learn. If you want to continue to lead you must continue to learn.

If you’re not interested in getting better, it’s time for you to stop leading.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Leaders are made one response at a time.

All leaders are permanent learners.

I'm hoping to learn something new every day. It sounds corny, but I really do come in here every day, listening and talking with the veteran guys and seeing what I can absorb.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

I could have coached better.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.