89 Quotes by Ken Jennings

"One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership."

"Serving Leaders direct credit to others."

"The theory of servant leadership is vital, but it’s the active Serving Leader that makes the critical difference."

"Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere."

"By putting others first the Serving Leader is able to catalyze the creation of high- performance teams."

"When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment."

"You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America."

"During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets."

"Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps."

"It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing."