Quotes About Mentorship

I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.

My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've been in the league, every year that I go through and deal with the scratches, the bumps and bruises, just the grind that it is to go through one NBA season.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

There are not a lot of young African-American guys who come through the video room. I wanted to make sure I was one of those guys, not only to live up to that standard but almost make a breakthrough for young African-American men. There is a pathway for you through the video room as well, but you have to be willing to do the work.

As children, we look up to people, for better or worse, and see them as the standard for how we should act and identify ourselves.

It's easy to be patient because you have a guy in the room like Eli Manning who comes in every day, one of the first people in the building and one of the last ones to leave and he's been in the league as long as he has. So that's what it takes to continue to get better, and he sets the standard, and I need to reach it.

My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.

I've worked with a lot of coaches in my career, but one man stands out, and that's Mr Ancelotti.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

I am the rich man's guru.

Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru's words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.