Edward Whitacre Jr. Quotes

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.

I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

I just want to bring positive energy. When I'm out there, be a leader on the floor - do the little things.

The one thing I've known and I've learned from the best managers, it's to stay positive.

It is when your team is losing that the captain has to keep the players together. He has to fight for them.

You need the life of a champion. It's always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.

There are always opportunities at Liverpool.

I can go home and be mad, but I have to stay upbeat and stay positive for my team and do anything I can to help them win.

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

When things go bad, the best thing to do is keep working and keep coaching.

When you have confidence, the atmosphere in the dressing room also improves.

I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.

Imran never lost faith in us as players, individually and as a team, and that gave us the confidence to win. He was a leader par excellence, and Pakistan have seen none like him.

I try to bring positivity to the team.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

Always make your team around you feel like you are succeeding, even though you know, way down deep, it's a long shot. You have to be the fighter and the leader and the one who instills energy and hope in others.

I love this game. I love to find solutions, ideas. I always saw the potential of this league. Now that I'm here, I want to help.

I always found myself feeling that happiness rises and frustration trickles down. If the people at the top are frustrated, then everybody down the line feels that. But if the people at the bottom are happy and fulfilled, then they do their jobs a little better, and it goes up that way.

There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go and do your best for yourself, your family and the club that employ you.

Sometimes it is the mentality that is really important. To have players with self-belief makes my job a lot easier, as they are certainly motivated and hungry.

In a well-run tech company, small, elite groups who have ownership in the company are given the freedom to define and achieve their tasks in line with a broader mission that they have internalized as their own.

Neymar is a leader when he is happy - being happy means being creative and feeling inspired.