William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

The market is not the society. Our societies are, of course, much, much more than the market. But lack of trust in the market can rub off on society so we lose trust in our society as well. And it may be the most important thing we have, trust. We can trust each other if we are treated as equals. If we are all to have the same chances, well, we all have to follow the same fundamental rules. Of course, some people and some businesses are more successful than others, but we do not trust in a society if the prizes are handed out even before the contest begins.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

My drive is other people's success.

It would be a joy for me if someone who was working with me became a big success.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Those of us with power must learn to listen more and talk less; those without power must learn to talk more an listen less.

I do not like to put one title above the other. Every competition I contest and win is important.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.

Leadership is service to others.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.