Steven Sinofsky Quotes

After every major tournament or challenge, I'll always sit down and say 'how does the future look? How does the next six months, year, four years look?'

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

I work hard to improve myself as a person - as a father, as a husband, as a manager. I'm always on that mission.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.

I always think about my future. That's part of my job.

So I've definitely had a crazy career, but I'm starting to put it together and starting to take my time and know that I can really do some damage if I just slow down just a little bit.

As a player you need to make whatever decision you think is best for your career.

There's always things that I can improve on.

There's always an opportunity with crisis. Just as it forces an individual to look inside himself, it forces a company to reexamine its policies and practices.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

A career is forward planning.

I was just getting away from my game plan. What I was doing really, I wasn't using it to my advantage in '18. And that was it.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.