Top 10 Mentoring Quotes by Well-known Authors, Famous People and Newsmakers to Inspire You

Mentoring isn’t just about what you can give to a protege. It’s about how you can help them accomplish what they want to accomplish. And once you know what the goal is, the path to getting there is just as important.

If you are ‘too busy’ most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

Small business, you can give them capital, but when they often need as much is mentoring, advice, and help with their business plan.

Sometimes someone coming in doesn’t have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I’m sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.

Mentoring is a two-way street. You get out what you put in.

The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea. In the twenty-first century, it’s plain good sense. Scarcity says, “I’m going to keep all my ideas to myself and sell more than anyone else.” Abundance says, “By mentoring, coaching, and sharing all our best ideas, we’re going to create a powerful tide that raises all our ships-and we’ll all sell more as a result”.

Mentoring is motivated by love.

Today, the lines between mentoring and networking are blurring. Welcome to the world of mentworking.

Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal to your team’s best instincts. Persuade and empower as if you are leading and mentoring volunteers.

The recommendation when I’m mentoring folks, I always tell them – and we talked about this last year – take a risk.