Famous Quotes & Sayings

John P. Kotter

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John Owen

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces - self-denial, readiness to the cross - they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.

Norman Cousins

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

John Naisbitt

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

John Wayne

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

John W. Gardner

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

John W. Gardner

The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.

John W. Gardner

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

John W. Gardner

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

John Templeton

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fury snorted. "You're the leader, Vane. Lead.

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Nick Vujicic

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Nolan Ryan

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Mike Murdock

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

John Wooden

The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.

John Wooden

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.

John Wooden

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

John Wooden

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

John Wooden

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

John Wooden

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

John Wooden

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

John Wooden

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

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.