Quotes About Mentors

I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer for a couple years and learning about oil and gas production. I had a whole cadre of mentors.

I had good coaches and mentors. They helped me a lot, and I trusted them when they tapped on my shoulder to move to the next level. And maybe I've been smart enough to always say yes more than no when I've been proposed a new and challenging jobs.

The truth is we're all searching. We're all looking for guidance, for mentors, and I'm by no means someone to follow.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

I've always said it's important to take advice from people who have what you want because otherwise, people are just guessing.

I'm still a young player - I'm still learning - so all I can try to do is soak up what's around me, and I've got great individuals, great people, to learn from and inspire to be like as well as how I want to play, so I'm grateful to be in the position I'm in and learn from the people I am.

In short, we can only learn from our betters.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

I realized it's important to have love in your life, it's important to have friendship, it's very important to have mentors and family.

I was blessed to have the guys at Bear Stearns as mentors. They taught me a lot, but most of all, they taught me that there's nothing wrong with selling if you're selling the right product to the right person.

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

My mentors were very good.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

I feel like I've been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors.

I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.