Tyler Perry Quotes

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Working together on solving something requires a high level of humility and a high level of self-awareness.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

A leader should not be obstinate, but must think of the people.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

We have to be leaders and sacrifice our own egos and be humble and go in and figure out what their values are, and then speak to those values.

I have no problems playing under anyone.

I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

I believe you can work with anybody.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.