You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself. Jon Gordon More Quotes by Jon Gordon More Quotes From Jon Gordon The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it. Jon Gordon fear-none strategy secret Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes. You can take it to the movies, the beach or the North Pole. Just say where you want to go and believe that it will be so. Because every journey and ride begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and if you have a desire then you also have the power to make it happen. Jon Gordon journey beach believe Only through service and sacrifice can you become great. Jon Gordon service-and-sacrifice sacrifice motivational Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him. Jon Gordon team goal love-is By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere records that that Paquito [D'Rivera] was on. And he also played me and our friend, Curtis Haywood, some Phil Woods records. And when I heard Phil, I just about lost my mind. I was playing the Charlie Parker Omnibook as part of my lessons. This was the '80s. There was no YouTube and all that. And we had three or four jazz records at that point. Jon Gordon mind years school Love the process and you’ll love what the process produces. Jon Gordon produce process I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be. Jon Gordon my-children want children A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away. Jon Gordon empowering leader giving If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want. Jon Gordon creating complaining thinking I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money. Jon Gordon senior years school I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time. Jon Gordon talk-to-me teenager thinking [Charles McPherson] was kind enough to go to a record gig of mine where we recorded a song of his. Jon Gordon gigs records song Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about. Jon Gordon powerful blessed thinking Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager. Jon Gordon teenager saws mind Hearing Phil [wood] a lot, those few years especially when I was going to hear music and Tom Harrell was in the band. Man that was incredible. Hearing Tom at that period, and hearing Phil in that period, and also [Charles] McPherson. Those three guys were very impactful. Very inspiring to me at the time. Jon Gordon guy men years I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too. Jon Gordon bob records mother We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know. Jon Gordon eight player mother Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling]. Jon Gordon schooling really-amazing hearing Barry Harris had a club called Jazz Cultural Theater and there were sessions there on a regular basis. I remember being there and sitting in with [Charles] McPherson and Barry being there, and just smiling at me. He didn't talk to me much at the time, he just came up and gave me a smile, which meant a lot. I've since gotten to know him and been around him a little bit. Jon Gordon clubs sitting littles I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house. Jon Gordon supportive house long
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