I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of humility and the willingness to listen to others, regardless of one’s own achievements.
Jimmy Iovine highlights the crucial role of active listening in leadership and personal growth. He suggests that when one's ego or sense of accomplishment hinders the ability to listen to others, it prevents learning and understanding. True wisdom comes from engaging with different perspectives, and overcoming pride is essential for continual growth and development.
In practice
During a team meeting, you can quote this to emphasize the importance of valuing everyone's input.
That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.
Elvis Presley was the big bang. He was the most influential single figure in the history of American pop culture. He changed the way we looked, thought, dressed, held a guitar. He didn't invent rock & roll, but he defined it in a way that everyone who followed him owes him a debt.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.
We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church. Please be careful you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his flock, letting his sheep graze.
Our leaders should certainly engage passionate advocacy of needed reforms, and equally strong criticism of policies they believe are destructive to America. But, from the school boards to the White House, let's elect more candidates who are committed to constructive dialogue and reasonable compromises.
If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
I'd give my life to be the national team coach.
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