To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.
Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children’s educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.
Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
Inasmuch as there is a useful purpose to what we do as VCs, I tend to think it’s our duty not only to mentor entrepreneurs and executive teams, but also to learn from them and the others involved. We can then pass on lessons to aid the startup ecosystem and help businesses succeed and grow their impact.
I’m very observant. So, my mentor is really basically a lot of people who are just around me and life itself. Just living and going different places and traveling.
Raj Kundra was my mentor. He had misguided me, saying whatever I was shooting was for glamour. He even told me that Shilpa Shetty likes my videos and photos.
My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.
Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.
As good as that first year in Ring of Honor was, the second year was really, really bad for me. In retrospect, it was great for me, but at the time, it was a tough situation to be in. I didn’t have anyone around to mentor me where I needed to be.
Once you embrace the absolute truth that every leader needs a mentor, you can begin to achieve the massive growth and success that you seek.
The best piece of advice I’ve received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.
The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person’s life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person’s life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they’ll be.
Being a mentor and a leader, I’ve always urged guys, if you’re ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.
It’s wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
Abraham was extremely wealthy and he had a covenant with God. It’s not the Jewish blessing, it’s the Abrahamic blessing. I get excited talking about it ’cause I love it and I started out deep in debt with nothing. I had to learn this from the Bible and from my spiritual mentor Oral Roberts.
Pete Krause has become a bit of a mentor to me. If there’s anything that I’m struggling with right away, I’ll go to him and I’ll ask him questions. We’ve formed a really great relationship.
There’s this fabulous innovation ship called Unreasonable at Sea, where I’m a mentor. One of the companies there was called Protei, and they’re an open hardware ocean exploration and monitoring idea.
Sometime in my 20s, a wise mentor said something that dramatically changed my outlook and that has stayed with me ever since. She told me to ‘wear the mantle with dignity and pride.’
A young girl reached out to me to be her mentor one day, which I didn’t really know anything about. What I did remember was what it was to be alone as an African-American dancer in the ballet world and wanting to connect with someone who looks like me.
My objective as a mentor, as a father, as a manager and as a former participant of the great game of boxing is to protect mine, but also the opponent. Especially if I can see things which I have experienced before.
Whenever someone asks me for career advice, I always tell them to find a mentor. Find someone who has done what you want to do, and study the way they got there.
I don’t have one person that’s a mentor. I have so many different people that do so many different things within the industry. And they’ve all been working for so long that they give me little pieces of advice here and there.
Seek out counsel and be a mentor to people, because then they learn how to be mentors.
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.
Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She’s also so giving and supportive.
I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the ‘The Alzheimer’s Project,’ which aired in May 2009. I was fortunate to work with a great mentor, producer John Hoffman, and the amazing doc filmmaker Susan Froemke.
The relationship between you and your boss will change over time. When you just started out, that boss was your mentor and took you under their wing. As a seasoned employee, though, you no longer need your boss to guide you along. You should be able to handle tasks on your own.
Having a mentor gives someone a huge advantage in life.
If anything, I’d say my family was entrepreneurial – my grandfather and father. It was in our blood. But I didn’t have this one mentor that was super successful.
At 22, and on my fourth day in New York, I was lucky enough to meet my mentor.
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
The fun thing about getting older is finding younger people to mentor.
My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.
I’ll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.
The business of making music is changing so radically because of the Internet. It’s become a lot more democratic in one respect, but in another respect there’s no one left to guide and mentor young bands.
I don’t have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
It’s not a coach relationship: he’s a mentor; it’s a life relationship. If I didn’t make it in fighting, I didn’t have anything else to fall back on.
I’ve been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company – simply out of their own interest and kindness.
Tommy Smothers is my longest mentor, and Dave Eggers is my youngest.
I’ve been very fortunate to have people pull me aside and mentor me.
I don’t necessarily have one mentor or ‘a’ mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that’s always kind of served me well.
There’s this character, Theo Galavan, who becomes the ringleader for the revolution of villainy in the city of Gotham. He becomes this mentor figure for Jerome that really inspires him to go off the deep end, and it’s really fun.
If you’re early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn’t.
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not.
Alex, AOC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she was a mentor from afar, even before I got to Congress.
Working with Subhash Ghai is always a different experience. Subhashji is my mentor. I’m always glad to work with him.
I’d never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them – but two inches shorter.
I’m Uncle Viv to Ian Botham’s son, Liam, and I’ve been a sort of mentor to him over the years. I’ve always been there for him and whenever there was an opportunity to see him play sport, I was there.
No, I don’t think it is required for casting directors to be actors too. My mentor Gautam Kishanchandani cannot act to save his life!
I believe in outgrowing a mentor and getting a new one, and I think that you can never be too old to be schooled by your mentor.
