Rande Gerber Quotes

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

The best way to find a balance between doing your best and showing that you're ready for more is by developing other people. As tempting as it is to hoard knowledge, don't. Instead, make certain that there are others who know how to do important aspects of your job.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.

It's vital to understand where you may have gaps in your knowledge or experience and to surround yourself with a team that complements that.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

I never felt I knew it all. I always felt there's something new to learn, something new to do.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I would say I'm a boss who's learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I'm learning along the way because that's a tough thing.

I'm not the No. 1 starter. I'm not the guy that's going to carry the staff for four months out of the season, but I can contribute in a lot of ways. And to me I'm very proud of that.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever being afraid of being the worst guy in the room. It's ego-crushing, yeah. Every day is ego-crushing. But it keeps you sharper than you can imagine.

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!