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Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United QUOTES

1 " Once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

2 " Onde you bid farewell to discipline you day goodbye to success "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

3 " No matter how hard we worked to blood youngsters, Barcelona is still able to do this better than any club. The way they develop boys into some of the best players in the world is breathtaking. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

4 " There’s a reason that God gave us two ears, two eyes and one mouth. It’s so you can listen and watch twice as much as you talk. Best of all, listening costs you nothing. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

5 " If I were running a company, I would always want to listen to the thoughts of its most talented youngsters, because they are the people most in touch with the realities of today and the prospects for tomorrow. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

6 " You cannot lead by following. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

7 " In the long run principles are just more important than expediency. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

8 " Perhaps the most important element of each activity is to inspire a group of people to perform at their very best. The best teachers are the unsung heroes and heroines of any society, "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

9 " The experience of defeat, or more particularly the manner in which a leader reacts to it, is an essential part of what makes a winner. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

10 " you learn more from defeats than you do from victories "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

11 " Don’t play the occasion, play the game. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

12 " I always felt that our triumphs were an expression of the consistent application of discipline. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

13 " Eleven Nobel laureates are not going to win the FA Cup. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

14 " When I was lost in my own thoughts, Cathy would always say, ‘You’re not listening to me.’ She was right. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

15 " Watching others, listening to their advice and reading about people are three of the best things I ever did. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

16 " We had a virus that infected everyone at United. It was called winning. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

17 " For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

18 " Losing is a powerful management tool so long as it does not become a habit. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

19 " If you can assemble a team of 11 talented players who concentrate intently during training sessions, take care of their diet and bodies, get enough sleep and show up on time, then you are almost halfway to winning a trophy. It is always astonishing how many clubs are incapable of doing this. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United

20 " I never had a problem reaching a decision based on imperfect information. That’s just the way the world works. "

― Alex Ferguson , Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United