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"The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be."
"But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance."
"Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off."
"Get the winners into the game."
"Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them."
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
"Do not do that which you would not have known."
"I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for."
"The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men."
"No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them."
"It's not about you. It's about them."
"Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end."
"All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone."
"There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position."
"I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large."
"You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down."
"Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform."
"The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone."
"The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly."
"One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation."
