Leadership is an action, not a position. @ -Donald McGannon
A boss says "you do it", a leader says "let's do it". @ -Amit Kalantri
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. @ -Klaus Balkenhol
The way your employees feel is the way your customers will feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers. @ -Sybil F. Stershic
If you want to lead on the highest level, be willing to serve on the lowest. @ -John C. Maxwell
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. @ -Tim Fargo
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. @ -Douglas MacArthur
Leadership is not just about giving energy. It's unleashing other people's energy. @ -Paul Polman
The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people. @ -Simon Sinek
Leaders should be able to stand alone, take the heat, bear the pain, tell the truth, and do what's right. @ -Max De Pree
A boss has the title, a leader has the people. @ -Simon Sinek
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. @ -Orrin Woodward
A boss loves power; a leader loves people. @ -Amit Kalantri
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do. @ -Steve Jobs
People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. @ -Simon Sinek
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another. @ -John C. Maxwell
Being a leader requires being confident enough in your own decisions and those of your team to own them when they fail. The very best leaders take the blame but share the credit. @ -Travis Bradberry
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity. Out of discord, harmony. And out of difficulty, opportunity. @ -Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. @ -Albert Einstein
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. @ -Stephen R. Covey
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. @ -Harvey S. Firestone
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. @ -Leroy Eimes
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better. @ -Steve Jobs
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. @ -Ralph Nader
Hire character. Train skill. @ -Peter Schutz
There is someone, somewhere waiting for you to motivate them to be great. So go and be great; inspire!
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. @ -Michelle Obama
You don't need a title to be a leader. @ -Mark Sanborn
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
We rise by lifting others. @ -Robert Ingersoll
Good leaders see more in people than people see in themselves. @ -Mark Sanborn
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. @ -Ken Blanchard
The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck. @ -Todd Stocker
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. @ -Peter McWilliams
Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess. @ -Richard Branson
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. @ -Simon Sinek
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. @ -Warren Bennis
Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others. @ -Roy T. Bennett
So much of leadership ability is about how other people experience themselves in your presence. A great leader has a presence that makes other people bigger. @ -Shane Parrish
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. @ -John C. Maxwell
Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results. @ -Robin Sharma
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. @ -Henry Ford
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. @ -Kobe Bryant
An investment in your personal development is the best investment you can make. @ -Jim Rohn
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. @ -Barack Obama
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. @ -Alexander the Great
True leaders actually do very little leading. Instead, they create and maintain a framework that allows others to lead, create, and grow. @ -Neil Strauss
Do what is right, not what is easy. @ -Roy T. Bennett
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. @ -Pete Hoekstra
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. @ -Maya Angelou
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. @ -Michael Jordan
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. @ -Warren Bennis
The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. @ -Henry Kissinger
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. @ -Norman Schwarzkopf
The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. @ -James Crook
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. @ -Ken Blanchard
Two things define you. Your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything. @ -Imam Ali
Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy – leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders. @ -Stephen R. Covey
Whatever you are, be a good one. @ -Abraham Lincoln
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. @ -Jane Goodall
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. @ -Denise Morrison
Leaders don't force people to follow – they invite them on a journey. @ -Charles S. Lauer
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. @ -Nelson Mandela
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. @ -Mary Kay Ash
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. @ -Maya Angelou
A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. @ -Rosalynn Carter
The price of greatness is responsibility.
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others' work. It's a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak. @ -Travis Bradberry
Set and maintain high standards. If you have to be hard on people, do it with love and a genuine wish for them to improve. Praise people when they hit the standard. @ -Sam Altman
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. @ -Steve Jobs
Lead from the back, and let others believe they are in front. @ -Nelson Mandela
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. @ -Stephen Covey
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions. @ -Tony Robbins
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. @ -Henry Ford
Don't find fault, find a remedy. @ -Henry Ford
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. @ -Bill Bradley
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack. @ -Seneca
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. @ -Seth Godin
Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism – they insist on it. @ -Travis Bradberry
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. @ -Warren Bennis
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. @ -Epictetus
The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. @ -John C. Maxwell
The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. @ -Phil Jackson
When it's tough, will you give up or will you be relentless? @ -Jeff Bezos
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. @ -Roy T. Bennett
The art of communication is the language of leadership. @ -James Humes
One voice can change a room. @ -Barack Obama
Earn your leadership every day. @ -Michael Jordan
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. @ -Winston Churchill
A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving. @ -Debasish Mridha
The most effective leaders aren't extraverts or introverts. They're ambiverts: people who strike a balance of talking and listening. @ -Adam Grant
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. @ -Roy E. Disney
True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. @ -Bill Owens
Help your people grow and perform at their highest possible levels. @ -Robert K. Greenleaf
Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing. @ -Warren Bennis
Emotions are not a choice. Behavior is. @ -Mark Manson
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. @ -Ian Hutchinson
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. @ -Peter F. Drucker
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. @ -Nelson Mandela
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. @ -Whoopi Goldberg
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. @ -Robert Townsend
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. @ -Charles Darwin
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team. @ -Reid Hoffman
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. @ -Tony Blair
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. @ -George S. Patton
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. @ -Warren Buffett
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. @ -John D. Rockefeller
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Problems become opportunities when the right people get together.
It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. @ -Mark Cuban
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. @ -Colin Powell
The world is run by the people who show up. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Great leaders always have open ears.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. @ -Warren Bennis
Don't let others failures convince you that you have to join them.
People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That's the new talent contract. @ -Pamela Stroko
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. @ -Caterina Fake
You manage things; you lead people. @ -Grace Hopper
Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you – you have to earn it and claim it for yourself. @ -Travis Bradberry
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. @ -Harvey S. Firestone
Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly. @ -Tony Robbins
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. @ -George Bernard Shaw
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. @ -Thomas Edison
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego. @ -Jocko Willink
We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves. @ -Christiana Figueres
What gets measured gets improved. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find the happiness that you had thought could never be yours. @ -Dale Carnegie
The more a man knows, the less he talks. @ -Voltaire
A tree doesn't need instructions on how to grow. A bee doesn't need instructions on how to make honey. So trust yourself to do what you know how to do.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. @ -Jack Welch
If your objective is to be as good as you can be, then you're going to want criticism. @ -Ray Dalio
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. @ -Aristotle
People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead. @ -Israelmore Ayivor
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. @ -Henry Ford
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. @ -John C. Maxwell
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. @ -James Kouzes and Barry Posner
You can have the best ship in the world, but if the captain doesn't know where to go, he's going to just drift around and is going to get lost. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. @ -Jeanette Rankin
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself. @ -Sam Walton
It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate. @ -Robert Greene
Effective executives do not race. They set an easy pace but keep going steadily. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Being humble doesn't mean that you lack self-confidence, or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does mean recognizing that you don't know everything – and that you're willing to learn from others. @ -Justin Bariso
In your actions, don't procrastinate. In your conversations, don't confuse. In your thoughts, don't wander. In your soul, don't be passive or aggressive. In your life, don't be all about business. @ -Marcus Aurelius
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. @ -Marilyn Monroe
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. @ -Roy T. Bennett
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. @ -Theodore Hesburgh
My jobs as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact. @ -Larry Page
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. @ -William Arthur Ward
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. @ -Nelson Mandela
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. @ -Harold S. Geneen
Discipline equals freedom. @ -Jocko Willink
Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole. @ -Tracy Streckenbach
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. @ -Amelia Earhart
One of the quickest ways to gain someone's trust is to help that person. @ -Justin Bariso
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. @ -Seth Godin
To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. @ -Pat Riley
To lead the people, walk behind them. @ -Lao Tzu
There is always room at the top. @ -Daniel Webster
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. @ -Malcolm X
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. @ -Vince Lombardi
Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for. @ -Mark Manson
Servant leadership pumps up the team with confidence, which leads to high-performance. @ -Marcel Schwantes
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. @ -Althea Gibson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. @ -Thomas Edison
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. @ -Rosabeth Moss Kantor
The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you? Mark Sanborn
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. @ -Andrew Carnegie
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. @ -Bill Gates
Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical. @ -John C. Maxwell
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. @ -Franz Kafka
Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. @ -Stanley McChrystal
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experience. It's excuses.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. @ -Dalai Lama
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us. @ -Barack Obama
There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. @ -Helen Keller
But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict. @ -Ronald Heifetz
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. @ -Ryunosuke Satoro
A leader operating in enemy territory should always project positivity and optimism. @ -Naval Ravikant
Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference. @ -Robin Sharma
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. @ -Albert Einstein
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first. @ -Angela Ahrendts
I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. @ -Hans Finzel
Don't let someone else convince you that your input is not important.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. @ -James Callaghan
The best way to predict the future is to create it, get to work.
Leadership and management are not synonymous. @ -Travis Bradberry
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. @ -Warren Bennis
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. @ -Margaret Fuller
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't. @ -Jack Ma
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. @ -David Star Jordan
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence. @ -Blake Lively
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. @ -Warren Bennis
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. @ -Max De Pree
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow. @ -Warren Bennis
Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it. @ -Rosemary Brown
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. @ -Zig Ziglar
The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four basic requirements of effective human relations: communications; teamwork; self-development; and development of others. @ -Peter F. Drucker
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. @ -Michael Porter
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. @ -Everett Dirksen
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things. @ -Max De Pree
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. @ -Lao Tzu
Leadership is intelligence, honesty, and doing the right thing. @ -Julie Zeilinger
Strong reasons make strong actions. @ -William Shakespeare
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing. @ -Benjamin Franklin
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. @ -Robert E. Lee
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. @ -Albert Schweitzer
Change before you have to. @ -Jack Welch
Done is better than perfect. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
The time is always right to do what is right. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. @ -Leo Tolstoy
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. @ -Peter Drucker
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. @ -Wendy Kopp
Early is on time, on time is late and late is unacceptable. @ -Eric Jerome Dickey
A king is one who fears nothing. @ -Seneca
A good leader must hate the wrong thing more than they hate the pain of doing the right thing. @ -Angela Jiang
Some people work. Others work toward.
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. @ -Stephen R. Covey
We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves. @ -John C. Maxwell
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. @ -Lao Tzu
It's impossible to engage people when you're not engaged yourself, and if you're not engaged then why should they be. @ -Gordon Tredgold
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. @ -Tina Fey
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. @ -Walter Lippman
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. @ -Warren Bennis
The most effective way to convince people is quietly. @ -Yoko Ono
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. @ -Steve Jobs
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. @ -Vernon Howard
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. @ -Isaac Newton
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it. @ -Lou Holtz
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood. @ -Max De Pree
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. @ -Ken Blanchard
A year from now you may wish you had started today. @ -Karen Lamb
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. @ -Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. @ -Stephen R. Covey
Let them be right, if that's what they need.
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. @ -Robert K. Greenleaf
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. @ -Patrick Ness
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. @ -Alice Walker
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. @ -Peter F. Drucker
You've got to help others. Don't just think about yourself. Help others. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. @ -Donald Miller
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore. @ -Lady Gaga
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize. @ -Voltaire
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations. @ -John Seaman Garns
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. @ -Warren Bennis
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. @ -Lao Tzu
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts. @ -John Paul Warren
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe you can and you're halfway there. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer. @ -Rihanna
Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard. @ -Travis Bradberry
Always be the best you can be so that others will shoot to do the same.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. @ -Napoleon Hill
Anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference. @ -Mark Sanborn
Don't forget to back yourself when the whole world is against you. Be the captain of your team.
Find people who will make you better. @ -Michelle Obama
He that cannot obey, cannot command. @ -Benjamin Franklin
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing. @ -James Kouzes and Barry Posner
If you want to make a masterpiece, you have to be willing to create a little garbage along the way. @ -James Clear
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. @ -Mark Twain
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. @ -Margaret Mead
What does your heart say?  @ -Jeff Bezos
Teamwork makes the dream work. @ -Bang Gae
Eliminate the need to be liked. Replace it with the intention to be of service, whether to others, something you believe in, or your highest self. @ -Neil Strauss
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. @ -Tony Robbins
She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them. @ -Beau Taplin
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.
You can't sell it outside if you can't sell it inside. @ -Stan Slap
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. @ -HE Luccock
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. @ -Jack Welch
Without an action plan, the executive becomes a prisoner of events. And without check-ins to reexamine the plan as events unfold, the executive has no way of knowing which events really matter and which are only noise. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. @ -Eleanor Roosevelt
People will always have their opinion on you despite who you are and what your capable of. @ -Ana Chable
Your doubts create mountains, but your actions move them. @ -Mel Robbins
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. @ -Madonna
Plenty of people start a new thing, be one of the exceptional few by following through.
True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. @ -Mandy Hale
If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents - start charging for it. @ -Kim Garst
Leadership is an ever-evolving position. @ -Mike Krzyzewski
Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate. @ -Bruce Lee
Arrive on time to your appointments, show people you are serious by your punctuality.
Be the one who makes others feel included.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. @ -Warren Buffett
Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. @ -Ann Landers
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. @ -Kenyan Proverb
Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they'll determine 80 percent of your success. @ -Barbara Corcoran
Change your focus from making money to serving more people. Serving people makes the money come in. @ -Robert T. Kiyosaki
Respond to difficult people with patience so you will know you did your best.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list. @ -Michelle Obama
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality. @ -Jim Rohn
We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. @ -Jim Stovall
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. @ -Thomas John Carlisle
People who can focus, get things done. People who can prioritize, get the right things done. @ -John Maeda
It's not about perfect. It's about effort. @ -Jillian Michaels
Saying no to the wrong things creates space to say yes to the right things. @ -Mack Story
When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as one, the sky's the limit.
The next time someone asks what you do, try this: Don't give them your job title. Instead, tell them what you're passionate about.
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. @ -Louisa May Alcott
Strive to do better, give back, and inspire others.
We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something. @ -Emma Watson
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn. @ -John Wesley
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power. @ -Simone de Beauvoir
Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect. @ -Gloria Steinem
I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. @ -Patricia Ireland
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career. @ -Earl Nightingale
If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest. @ -Deb Caletti
If you are working on something you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. @ -Steve Jobs
Raise your words, not your voice. @ -Rumi
The more clear you are in the vision of what you want in life, the brighter the spotlight will be to lead you on the right path.
The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it. @ -Katherine Whilehaen
The best way to get approval is not to need it. @ -Hugh MacLeod
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. @ -Ara Paraeghian
He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others. @ -Albert Einstein
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. @ -Margaret Carty
So you're a little weird? Work it! Different? Own it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd! @ -Mandy Hale
In teaching others we teach ourselves.
Collaboration and cooperation will beat competition every time. Think abundantly. Speak authentically. Serve willingly. You have enough. You are enough.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different. @ -Coco Chanel
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. @ -Amy Poehler
Act as if what you do makes a difference. @ -William James
It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
The tone of your voice can influence someone's response to you, speak intentionally.
Nothing frustrates team members more than leaders who can't make up their minds. @ -John Maxwell
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. @ -Katherine Whitehorn
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. @ -Sherry Argov
When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. @ -Wendy Mass
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. @ -William James
Leadership is about taking responsibility not making excuses.
A leader must inspire or his team will expire. @ -Orrin Woodward
What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change. @ -Reese Witherspoon
Every great leader knows that his or her role comes with responsibility for those who follow him or her, and in ensuring they provide value in return for their loyalty. @ -Lewis Howes
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. @ -Wendy Kopp
The best of people is the one who humbles himself the more his rank increases. @ -Prophet Muhammad
A spirit of thankfulness attracts others to your cause, ideas and goals. @ -Skip Prichard
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. @ -Mother Teresa
See the best in people and watch how they fight to prove you right. @ -Skip Prichard
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. @ -Warren Buffett
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. @ -Harold S. Geneen
You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself. @ -Jon Gordon
You have the power to be excellent. To inspire everyone who intersects your path. To innovate and make things better than ever before. To wow customers. And to stand for the best. Will you?  @ -Robin Sharma
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. @ -Larry Eisenberg
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. @ -Amelia Earhart
You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody. @ -Juliana Hatfield
Be fast, be first, but never be alone. Nothing can replace the value of teamwork. @ -Farshad Asl
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything. @ -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right. @ -Gary Keller
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. @ -John C. Maxwell
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. @ -George Van Valkenburg
The highest of distinctions is service to others. @ -King George VI
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. @ -Harry S. Truman
The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. @ -Phil Jackson
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. @ -Lee Iacocca
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. @ -Brian Tracy
When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us. @ -Ava DuVernay
For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. @ -Bill Walsh
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. @ -Patricia Neal
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people. @ -Steve Jobs
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. @ -James Baldwin
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out. @ -Anita Roddick
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
People achieve more as a result of working with others than against them. @ -Dr. Allan Fromme
If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself. @ -Otis S. Johnson
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others and then putting it into practice. @ -Sue Gunter
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. @ -Guy Kawasaki
Success looks different to everyone, so how can you expect someone else to create it for you.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. @ -Blaise Pascal
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results. @ -Ifeanyi Onuoha
When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. @ -Linda Naiman
Be the change you want to see happen rather than trying to change anyone else. @ -Arleen Lorrance
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by. @ -Austin Kleon
A strong leader avoids becoming over-confident to the point of impaired judgment. @ -Daniel Lubetzky
With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input. @ -Ogwo David Emenike
To stand apart from the competition, you must first stand together as a team.
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. @ -Andrew Carnegie
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. @ -Elon Musk
What would you do if you weren't afraid? @ -Sheryl Sandberg
We're building a culture of accountability, trust, and togetherness. Entitlement will not be tolerated. @ -Brad Stevens
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. @ -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Honesty has a power that very few people can handle. @ -Steve Aitchison
Once you know specifically what you're aiming for, you'll find that you can muster up enthusiasm for your goal more easily. @ -AJ Winters
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind. @ -Lao Tzu
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. @ -Karl von Clausewitz
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. @ -Norman Schwarzkopf
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. @ -Brené Brown
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. @ -Caterina Fake
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.
The best teacher is the one that helps them think for themselves.
We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together. @ -Bill Richardson
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity. @ -Tim Ferriss
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. @ -John C. Maxwell
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
You don't need a reason to help people.
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone.
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. @ -Queen Elizabeth II
Power isn't control at all–power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. @ -Beth Revis
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. @ -Andrea Jung
Determined people working together can do anything. @ -Jim Casey
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things. @ -Biz Stone
Everything ultimately comes down to trust. @ -Marcus Sheridan
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. @ -Marie Curie
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea. @ -Jack Dorsey
Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. @ -Stephen Covey
If you want to lead them you must place yourself behind them. @ -Lao Tzu
Good well-being promotes good productivity. @ -Lailah Gifty Akita
Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives. @ -Russel Honore
Three little duties – to try hard, to be honest, and to help ourselves and others. @ -Ryan Holiday
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. @ -Toni Morrison
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. @ -Blaine Lee
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. @ -Virginia Burden
I've never aspired to be a leader. I have only focused on doing things that I felt were important. @ -Ginny Gilder
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
The productivity of a workgroup seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization. @ -Ken Blanchard
Let the breath lead the way. @ -Sharon Salzberg
Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. @ -Kathryn Minshew
Perform all work carefully, guided by compassion. @ -Ved Vyasa
People are the most important thing. Business model and product will follow if you have the right people. @ -Adam Neumann
Great companies have something in common: they don't try to matter by winning. They win by mattering. @ -Bernadette Jiwa
It's true: teamwork makes the dream work. @ -Natalya Neidhart
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. @ -Colin Powell
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do. @ -Amelia Earhart
We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. @ -Augustine of Hippo
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. @ -Thomas Sowell
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them. @ -Harvey MacKay
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule. @ -Albert Einstein
To lead others, one must find one's own direction. @ -Zhuangzi
I think it's really important to have a vision of teamwork, team play, and unselfishness. @ -Chris Mullin
Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests. @ -Patrick Lencioni
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. @ -Lao Tzu
Teamwork is a strategic decision. @ -Patrick Lencioni
Dream to manifest yourselves into leaders with great vision.
The element of teamwork is perhaps underappreciated. @ -Stewart Butterfield
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it. @ -Estée Lauder
No team works out teamwork. @ -Dwyane Wade
The strength in power is knowing when not to use it.
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. @ -Dalai Lama
Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned. @ -Janet Robinson
Effective executives put their best people on opportunities rather than on problems. @ -Peter F. Drucker
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers. @ -David J. Schwartz
Offer help to others when you can so that you may receive help back when you need it.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. @ -Mary Kay Ash
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. @ -Sam Rayburn
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. @ -Steve Jobs
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. @ -Max De Pree
Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture creating the building blocks for success. @ -Ted Sundquist
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. @ -Henry David Thoreau
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. @ -Anna Garlin Spencer
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. @ -Publilius Syrus
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. @ -Buckminster Fuller
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. @ -Jawaharlal Nehru
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. @ -Warren Bennis
Good things come to those who initiate. @ -Susan RoAne
If you are rich and powerful but unhappy, what's the point of being rich and powerful? Thich Nhat Hanh
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. @ -James Kouzes and Barry Posner
When people talk, listen completely. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream. @ -Warren Bennis
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. @ -Albert Einstein
Politicians have to be committed to people in equal measures. @ -Angela Merkel
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. @ -W.E.B. Du Bois
Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. @ -Peter F. Drucker
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. @ -Eric Hoffer
It takes two flints to make a fire. @ -Louisa May Alcott
Leaders live by choice, not by accident. @ -Mark Gorman
You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. @ -Travis Bradberry
The greatest deficiency of any CEO is also the most critical of skills: clarity. @ -Kapil Gupta
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. @ -Jerry Porras
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. @ -Nelson Mandela
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. @ -Jason Fried
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. @ -Max De Pree
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain. @ -Max De Pree
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. @ -Warren Bennis
True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. @ -Amit Kalantri
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. @ -Vince Lombardi
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job. @ -Peter F. Drucker
History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own. @ -Michelle Obama
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. @ -Henrik Ibsen
My life didn't please me, so I created my life. @ -Coco Chanel
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. @ -Nikola Tesla
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. @ -Noam Chomsky
All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves. @ -Jag Randhawa
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. @ -Peter F. Drucker
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. @ -Warren Bennis
Employees of servant leaders are more helping and creative than those working with leaders who scored lower on servant leadership. @ -Marcel Schwantes
You are judged in this world by how well you bring things to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years to come. @ -Robert Greene
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. @ -Benjamin Spock
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already. @ -J.K. Rowling
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Start doing it. @ -Jocko Willink
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. @ -Warren Bennis
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. @ -John Zenger
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. @ -Warren Bennis
Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory. @ -Jocko Willink
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. @ -Francis Hesselbein
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
If people believe you have a plan, that you know where you are going, they will follow you instinctively. @ -Robert Greene
If there is any one "secret" of effectiveness, it is concentration. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Doing your best means never stop trying. @ -Benjamin Franklin
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. @ -Lao Tzu
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. @ -Warren Bennis
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. @ -Max De Pree
The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs. @ -Max De Pree
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. @ -Thomas Carlyle
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. @ -Diogenes
Leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. @ -John Gardner
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. @ -Mary D. Poole
If our drive to get and maintain power drains us and strains our relationships, we never truly enjoy our professional or material success and it's simply not worth it. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity. @ -Margaret Wheatley
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader. @ -Stanley McChrystal
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. @ -Kofi Annan
The cautious seldom err. @ -Confucius
We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. @ -Mark Zuckerberg
Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. @ -Angela Merkel
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. @ -Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. @ -Ernest Becker
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. @ -Isaac Newton
When you are a kid, they tell you that you can do anything. They forget to tell you that you have to work for it.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first. @ -Harry S. Truman
Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Act or do not act, but do not hedge. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. @ -John Naisbitt
There seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception. @ -John C. Maxwell
Effectiveness is a habit. @ -Peter F. Drucker
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. @ -John Wooden
A leader is a dealer in hope. @ -Napoleon Bonaparte
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. @ -Dianne Feinstein
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. @ -Jim Rohn
Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense. @ -Alexander Hamilton
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. @ -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Above all, effective executives treat change as an opportunity rather than a threat. They systematically look at changes, inside and outside the corporation, and ask, "How can we exploit this change as an opportunity for our enterprise?". @ -Peter F. Drucker
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. @ -Edwin H. Friedman
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. @ -Warren Bennis
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Sharing emotions builds deeper relationships. @ -Sheryl Sandberg
Leaders shouldn't attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can't compromise. @ -Peter F. Drucker
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. @ -Thomas Aquinas
Ego clouds and disrupts everything. @ -Jocko Willink
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. @ -Alan Cohen
The effective executive does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Don't seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will flow well. @ -Epictetus
Don't forget to do something for other people. @ -Marc Benioff
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. @ -Brandon Sanderson
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. @ -Timothy R. Clark
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. @ -Faye Wattleton
All leaders are readers. @ -Jim Rohn
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. @ -Albert Einstein
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. @ -William Shakespeare
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct himself toward performance and contribution, that is, toward effectiveness. @ -Peter F. Drucker
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. @ -Seneca
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.  @ -G.K. Chesterton
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. @ -Plato
I have never encountered an executive who remains effective while tackling more than two tasks at a time. @ -Peter F. Drucker
The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. @ -Warren Bennis
Scientists have shown that achievement depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity. @ -Peter F. Drucker
I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are. @ -Joan Rivers
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. @ -Marian Anderson
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you to where you want to go, no one else. @ -Les Brown
A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.  @ -M.D. Arnold
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. @ -James MacGregor Burns
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. @ -John Kenneth Galbraith
If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, collected mind. @ -Naval Ravikant
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. @ -Tom Rath
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. @ -Joseph Rost
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. @ -Napoleon Hill
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. @ -Lao Tzu
What is the manager's job? It is to direct the resources and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically significant results. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. @ -Barbara Corcoran
What we need is a way to identify the areas of effectiveness (of possible significant results), and a method for concentrating on them. @ -Peter F. Drucker
"Turned on" people figure out how to beat the competition, "Turned off" people only complain about being beaten by the competition. @ -Ben Simonton
All one has to do is to learn to say "no" if an activity contributes nothing to one's own organization, to oneself, or to the organization for whom it is to be performed. @ -Peter F. Drucker
The focus on contribution is the key to effectiveness. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. @ -H. Ross Perot
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult. @ -Warren Bennis
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. @ -John Gardner
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. @ -Horace Mann
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. @ -Faye Wattleton
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. @ -Toni Morrison
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. @ -Napoleon Hill
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. @ -Brad Szollose
To be more requires a man who is conceited enough to believe that the world really needs him and depends on his getting into power. @ -Peter F. Drucker
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. @ -Warren Bennis
Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors. @ -Jocko Willink
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. @ -Thomas Friedman
Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level. @ -Travis Bradberry
It's your unlimited power to create and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. @ -Tony Robbins
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. @ -Margaret Mead
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. @ -Buddha
Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation comes from perpendicular thinking. @ -Peter Diamandis
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it's the lessons you learn along the way. @ -Jeff Bezos
Effective executives do not start out with their tasks. They start out with their time. And they do not start out with planning. They start by finding out where their time actually goes. @ -Peter F. Drucker
Problem solving, however necessary, does not produce results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results. @ -Peter F. Drucker
