Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

Susan Collins

One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

Susan Collins

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Susan Collins

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Stuart Rose

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Solon

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Steve Jobs

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed

Steve Jobs

Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.

Steve Jobs

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Steve Jobs

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Steve Jobs

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Mike Krzyzewski

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Mike Krzyzewski

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

Mike Krzyzewski

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Mike Huckabee

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Peter Thiel

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Peter King

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

Peter King

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Peter King

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Peter Salovey

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Peter Sagal

Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.

Peter Senge

The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

Peter Senge

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Peter Pace

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Peter Pace

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Peter Jacobsen

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

Peter Cosgrove

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

Peter Cosgrove

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.

Peter Cosgrove

But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

Peter Cosgrove

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!