Pete Carroll Quotes

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

I believe in delegating power.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.