Mentoring Quotations

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.

I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are invaluable. One is volunteering, especially mentoring other young people with reading, math or help thinking about college. Through iMentor, one can even mentor people online.

So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

I love mentoring young girls. I've always been like that.

Other than my foundation - mentoring programs - everything I do is for money.

We desperately need people. They can call here, or go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

We desperately need people. They can call here, go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

This promotion is a reflection of the outstanding job Neal has done managing the Atlanta region and also the outstanding role he has played mentoring a large group of Business Wire managers. He has consistently demonstrated a very creative approach to both sales and management and has built a very successful and loyal client base over the past 14 years.

My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.

Maybe it will be mentoring the younger players,

I have a love for children, ... I like working with them. I like mentoring young men and my next profession I selected teaching.

He helped refocus the curriculum at the high school. And he is mentoring other teachers in the district.

We've got to look at the programs that are working across the nation to prevent crime -- mentoring programs, dispute resolution programs that teach children how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists, and truancy prevention programs that get them back into school and keep them out of trouble,

He'd call you and say he had a problem with your script 45 minutes before you were going on the air. Part of it was to remind you who the alpha dog was, but he also saw it as a mentoring thing. If you're going to get your piece on ABC News, you had better know your story backward and forward. That's why he was famous for asking obscure questions.

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmsuch as mentoring or fundraisingand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Organizations are realizing they can move opportunities into the virtual realmùsuch as mentoring or fundraisingùand get more people volunteering regardless of location. They can save space in-house, which may make room for an additional staff person or volunteer, and they can take advantage of skills and resources that may not be available in their own community.

Our new home improvement series will inspire and inform, while mentoring and teaching valuable life skills, from repairing brickwork, laying flooring, painting rooms and installing a functional and lovely kitchen,

We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a part of the mentoring program, and then why they think they're qualified to mentor elementary students.

We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

understanding the business side of this world more, like with Rupert's Kids and my mentoring group, trying to work the business side. I never thought about that part of it.

When he arrived on campus in September 2002, I was assigned to mentor him about the practices and policies of higher education. The mentoring was reciprocated. He elevated my understanding by sharing his knowledge and experiences from his broad professional and academic training.

The critical thing addressed here today is that there are a good number of people who do not have a family connection to hunting or the outdoors. It takes a caring older person to introduce a young person to the outdoor life. That is the beauty of the mentoring concept. It can be a hard thing to see the beauty and the joy of the outdoor experience all on your own, at least initially. Much more has been accomplished here today that preaching to the choir.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

We were part of the mentoring program with NASA and JPL. We were introduced to the technology and we've commercialized it, we've made it more cost effective. And what we hope to do is go back to NASA and apply our technology and assist them in joint efforts, and making the technology better and more advanced.

Community members serve as directors for the program. The involvement of community leaders adds an important mentoring element.

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

That takes too much of your time. But I've always thought about coaching, whether it was here, AAU or teaching and mentoring young kids, ... I'll see how this goes. All my career I've taken things as they come, so this is no different.

There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach.

At first, the kids weren't showing up at the gym because of transportation and motivational reasons. We came in and provided rides and mentoring services to the kids.

It's been a perfect mentoring system and support back and forth.

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options?

Being only 17, they were almost mentoring and nice (to me),

Women helping each other - coaching, mentoring, and providing tips - is a great way for us to be our own force.

I love all the mentoring, the public-private partnership ideas.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

I asked Alan if he knew of any mentoring programs, and he told me to put my resume together and he'd get it in the hands of other people.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.

You can take a look at your support systems in place. We continue to assess and analyze all of that, including summer school and mentoring programs.

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

We firmly believe that if enough members of the business community step forward, applying positive employment policies in their own workforce and mentoring other companies, that fact will change,

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!