35 Quotes by Bo Schembechler

The team, the team, the team.

If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.

If you want to be a truly great leader, you’ll develop other great leaders below you.

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn’t show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren’t going to be able to do anything else.

You can NOT be a leader unless you like people! You’ve got to spend time with them, so you know them. You’ve got to be interested in who they are, what they do away from the job, and how they think.

Every day we get better, or we get worse.

If you do not like people, you will not take the time to get to know them, and if you don’t get to know them, you will have no idea what scares them, what inspires them, what motivates them.

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you’ve already got a good job. I won’t be interested, because in a couple years, you’ll be doing the same thing to me that you’re doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.