Scott Borchetta Quotes

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.

I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

I've always made my own decisions and selected a script on my own conviction.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.

What's crazy is, my whole life I been a leader. I'm not a follower.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

Seek other people's advice, but don't take orders. And don't take 100% of anyone's advice. Make sure every decision you make is a product of your own conclusion. Be a student, not a disciple.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men

It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

Best is the man who thinks for himself.

Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

I'm fortunate to have an amazing, strong mother who is so supportive of everything me and my sisters did growing up - but she was someone who never forced us to go swim or to go do this or that. She helped us think about certain consequences when we needed to, but we made our own decisions. I think if I were forced to swim, I wouldn't have stayed in the pool as long as I did.