Ted Yoho Quotes

I've always tried to be a leader.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

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.

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.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

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

I like being a leader in real life.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they say, 'I will be sad if you don't do X.' You have to say, 'We're not going to do X, and here's why, and believe me, you'll be much sadder later if I let you go do it and you spend a bunch of time on it and nothing ever happens.'

I am learning how to delegate and how to empower people.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

The captain at international level has to be someone who is one of the first names on the team sheet, someone who has the respect of the other players and someone who has good leadership qualities.

I try to be a leader on the pitch rather than off it.

How do you govern by captaining the ship? How do you win without the trust of the crew?

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.