Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Peters

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

Tom Peters

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Tom Peters

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Robbins

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Lantos

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Landry

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

Tom Ford

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Steve Largent

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

Stephen Covey

"You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy their heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his his resourcefulness."

Stephen Covey

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

Stephen Covey

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

Stephen Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Stephen Covey

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Stephen Covey

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Stephen Covey

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Thomas Carlyle

Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Thomas Carlyle

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Tony Hsieh

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Tony Dungy

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

Tony Dungy

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

Tony Dungy

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

Tony Dungy

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.