Quotes About Mentoring

I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

Teach the people with love and help them abide to biblical principles

Guys that are young in the league. Guys that you get to teach them your way. It's not a bad thing. It's actually a good thing. It's working for them. Teach them that way, and I guarantee they aren't as stubborn and hard-headed as I was, which sometimes is good, sometimes is bad. But like I always say, I'm not going to change who I am.

Having students was so inspiring.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

The biggest thing I want to see is that people have the drive to succeed. If they can 'take it or leave it,' I don't do business with them. I enjoy mentoring. I like people who want to learn.

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

I never studied, but I had the best teachers.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

If we build the people, they'll build the business

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people.

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision

What I could offer Lisa was not the conventional haven of maternal love and concern but my mind and my energy. If she had not acquired these genetically then I was quite prepared to show her how to think and act. I was no good at kissing away tears or telling bedtime stories – any mother can do that: my uses were potentially far more significant.

Say what you want about Hitler, but he trained killers. You train kids in their early years and you can do anything you want with that child. —Sparky Anderson, manager of the Detroit Tigers,        trying to explain why he prefers younger ballplayers

If you do not influence them, someone else will. If you are not shaping their values, others will do it for you. The issue is not, Will my child be influenced? The issue is, Who will be that influence? Most parents I know prefer to wield the greatest influence in the lives of their children. They wisely want to make the major investment in their children's lives so that the values of their offspring largely reflect their own. That's the most basic rationale for investing

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.