"No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better."

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Source : Max Barry (2013). “Lexicon”, p.165, Hachette UK

Jim Yong Kim

#Jobs Quotes #Humility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.”
“Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.”
“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.”

Source : Source: slushpile.net
“Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.”
“The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'”
“Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.”
“I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A child's a plaything for an hour.”

Source : Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb “Works: The essays of Elia”

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