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Always get back to your core principles.

Mike Krzyzewski

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Mike Krzyzewski
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 13
Basketball Coach
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Chicago
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Michael William Krzyzewski
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In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
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A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.
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When you cleanse yourself of a big victory, you may open yourself up to the opportunity for an even bigger victory
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Confrontation simply means meeting the truth head-on.
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Leaders have to give time for relationships. But more demands will be placed on their time as they become more successful. So if a person's success is based on developing relationships, then they have to continually find new ways of getting it done
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I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.
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A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.
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First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
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There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable
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The team that trusts-their leader and each other-is more likely to be successful.
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Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.
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It’s simply doing what you’re supposed to do as well as you can when you’re supposed to do it.
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!
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In leadership, there are no words more important than trust. In any organization, trust must be developed among every member of the team if success is going to be achieved
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Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
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If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
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When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.
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I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
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We travel in Duke stuff... They can have a hat, but it must be a Duke hat.
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Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.
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