Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Welch

A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it

Jack Welch

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Jack Welch

You have no right to be a leader if someone who works for you doesn't know where they stand.

Jack Welch

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

Jack Welch

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Jack Welch

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

Jack Welch

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Jack Welch

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

Jack Welch

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

The combination of the two offensively, as well as, defensively leads the team from the first pitch.

The first thing you need is experience. You need to have senior leadership to really go far, to get you through the tough times.

Elizabeth Smart

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Eric Holder

In the months ahead, I will leave the Department of Justice, but I will never -- I will never -- leave the work. I will continue to serve and try to find ways to make our nation even more true to its founding ideals.

Eric Hoffer

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Eric Hoffer

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Eric Hoffer

The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

Eric Hoffer

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Eric Bolling

That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

Emmitt Smith

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

James Cash Penney

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Frederick Reines

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Frederick W. Smith

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

Jon Meacham

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

Jon Meacham

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

Jon Hamm

It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set

Johnny Unitas

In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.

John Breaux

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.