Andy Stanley Quotes

My opening words to anybody I hire are, 'I'm an extremely vulnerable person.'

Every executive should be able to say four things: 'I don't know,' 'I need help,' 'I was wrong,' and 'Thank you.'

When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.

Team members who are not genuinely open with one another about their mistakes and weaknesses make it impossible to build a foundation for trust.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

Good leadership is leadership that shows vulnerability.

Making yourself vulnerable is a key element of leading.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

We tap into something when we're honest about what's going on in our lives.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

I have a million career weaknesses, and although it's uncomfortable, I believe that authentically acknowledging and working through your vulnerability is more powerful than the delusion of perfection.

Strength, to me, is about exposing vulnerabilities and foibles and facts and people that are honest.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.

You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'

True power is given to the vulnerable.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.