Famous Quotes About - leadership

  • A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ... J. P. Morgan {view}
  • A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ... Max Lucado {view}
  • Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. ... Jim Rohn {view}
  • Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ... Steve Jobs {view}
  • Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ... W. Clement Stone {view}
  • Clarity affords focus. ... Thomas Leonard {view}
  • Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. ... Barbara Sher {view}
  • Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ... John D. Rockefeller {view}
  • Don't find fault, find a remedy. ... Henry Ford {view}
  • Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. ... Stephen Covey {view}
  • Every silver lining has a cloud. ... Mary Kay Ash {view}
  • Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. ... Nolan Bushnell {view}
  • Get the best people and train them well. ... Scott McNealy {view}
  • Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. ... Tom Hopkins {view}
  • Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. ... Jim Rohn {view}
  • Good enough never is. ... Debbi Fields {view}
  • Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ... Paul Hawken {view}
  • He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. ... Sun Tzu {view}
  • High expectations are the key to everything. ... Sam Walton {view}
  • Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ... Henry Ward Beecher {view}
  • How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking. ... David Joseph Schwartz {view}
  • I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. ... R. Buckminster Fuller {view}
  • If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. ... Tom Peters {view}
  • If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. ... William James {view}
  • If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. ... Thomas Fuller {view}
  • If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. ... Harvey S. Firestone {view}
  • If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. ... Henry Ford {view}
  • If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ... William James {view}
  • In fair weather prepare for foul. ... Thomas Fuller {view}
  • Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ... Steve Jobs {view}
  • It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. ... Michael Eisner {view}
  • Leaders grasp nettles. ... David Ogilvy {view}
  • Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ... John C. Maxwell {view}
  • Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. ... Harold S. Geneen {view}
  • Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ... Harold S. Geneen {view}
  • Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ... Dwight D. Eisenhower {view}
  • Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ... Warren G. Bennis {view}
  • Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ... Ray Kroc {view}
  • Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. ... Peter Drucker {view}
  • Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. ... Bernard Baruch {view}
  • My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ... Duke Ellington {view}
  • No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ... W. Clement Stone {view}
  • No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ... Andrew Carnegie {view}
  • Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. ... E. Joseph Cossman {view}
  • Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. ... E. Joseph Cossman {view}
  • People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. ... Peter Drucker {view}
  • People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ... Thomas Sowell {view}
  • Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. ... Henry J. Kaiser {view}
  • Strong convictions precede great actions. ... James Freeman Clarke {view}
  • The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. ... Barbara Sher {view}
  • The cautious seldom err. ... Confucius {view}
  • The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. ... J. Paul Getty {view}
  • The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. ... Vaclav Havel {view}
  • The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. ... Andrew Carnegie {view}
  • The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. ... Charles de Gaulle {view}
  • The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. ... Ken Olsen {view}
  • The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. ... Harvey S. Firestone {view}
  • The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. ... Mary Kay Ash {view}
  • The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ... Henry A. Kissinger {view}