Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Donna Shalala

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Don Tapscott

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Don Tapscott

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Dale Carnegie

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Dale Carnegie

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Corazon Aquino

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Colin Powell

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Colin Powell

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

Colin Powell

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Colin Powell

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Colin Powell

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Colin Powell

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Andy Grove

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Amy Poehler

A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Adora Svitak

You must lend an ear today, because we are the leaders of tomorrow

Abe Lemons

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

Alexander the Great

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander the Great

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.