Trailblazing Quotes

I felt like I was trailblazing. And that's what I did.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas told me everything went well and that I could probably play four years in the NFL. The surgery was trailblazing to a certain extent.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.