Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret J. Wheatley

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Marcus Buckingham

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Kin Hubbard

The fellow that calls you 'brother' usually wants something that doesn't belong to him.

Kevin Rudd

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians...

Michael Enzi

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

Michael Foot

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

Peter Drucker

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Peter Drucker

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Peter Drucker

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 Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter Drucker

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Peter Drucker

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Peggy Fleming

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Paulo Coelho

The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going...

Maurice Strong

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

Matt Millen

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them,

Maya Angelou

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

Max Stirner

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Max Weber

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

Max de Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Max de Pree

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

Max de Pree

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Max de Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.