Mikel Arteta Quotes

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

Leadership—not salesmanship

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

Football gave me a sense of purpose. It gave me a sense of me.

I had a few passionate discussions with my own coaches, but it wasn't for more playing time or anything like that. It was because, even then, I wanted to run the team my own way.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Unless you are clear in your mind and in a position to think clearly and know where you want to go, with confidence, then you're never going to be able to achieve it.