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Eric Schmidt- "The one thing that people are never good at is seeing themselves as others see them. A coach really, really helps."
Bill Gates- "Everyone needs a coach. We all need people that give us feedback. That’s how we improve."
Oprah Winfrey- "Coaching helps you stop the crazy mind chatter in your head that tells you all the time that you're not good enough."
Andre Agassi- "A great coach can lead you to a place where you don’t need him any more."
Richard Branson- "Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to."
Hugh Jackmann- "A coach just has a different perspective. Still to this day, the best have coaches because the coach can see what you can't see because you're in the forest, they're outside of it."
Jeff Bezos- "If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."
Satya Nadella- "Every person, organization, and even society reaches a point at which they owe it to themselves to hit refresh—to reenergize, renew, reframe, and rethink their purpose."
Jim Yong Kim- "No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better."
Even the best look to coaches for ways to improve, the biggest effect that any coach has is giving the outside perspective.