Leading: Lessons in leadership from the legendary Manchester United manager
Alex Ferguson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success”
“There’s a reason that God gave us two ears, two eyes and one mouth. It’s so you can listen and watch twice as much as you talk. Best of all, listening costs you nothing.”
“You cannot lead by following.”
“When I was lost in my own thoughts, Cathy would always say, ‘You’re not listening to me.’ She was right.”
“Eleven Nobel laureates are not going to win the FA Cup.”
“very often our victories were squeaked out in the last few minutes, after we had drained the life from our opponents. Games – like life – are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.”
“We had a virus that infected everyone at United. It was called winning.”
“One mark of a leader is his willingness to share information.”
“For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.”
“There are a number of subjective and objective criteria that I use as a way to rank players. The subjective ones include their ability with both feet; their sense of balance; the disciplined fashion in which they take care of their fitness; their attitude towards training; the consistency between games and over multiple seasons; their demonstrated mastery in several different positions; and the way they add flair to any team for which they play. The objective ones that are impossible to dispute are: the number of goals they have scored; the games they have played for several of the best club teams in the world; the number of League championship and cup medals they have won, and their appearances in World Cups. When you employ this sort of measurement approach, it becomes far easier to define the very highest levels of performance. The people who are least confused about this are other players.”
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Book Keywords:
success, discipline, inspirational
