Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

Peter Cosgrove

We all of us have a reputation, something we are known for, and sometimes it may be different from what we would like to be known for. At the core of this is the simple but fragile heart - our integrity - which is always under challenge, under tests both trivial and profound every day of our lives.

Peter Cosgrove

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Peter Cosgrove

I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'

Peter Cosgrove

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

Peter Cosgrove

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Peter Cosgrove

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

Peter Cosgrove

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Peter Cosgrove

It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the issues behind these falls could be grouped under a lack of competence, a lack of support or loyalty from those they sought to lead, and a lack of failure of integrity. Of all these the last is the most egregious, the most fatal. We so much want our leaders to be unfailingly decent that an obvious or perceived flaw in integrity can be the toxin which kills them off.

Simon Sinek

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

Simon Sinek

Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Simon Sinek

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

Simon Sinek

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Simon Sinek

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

Simon Sinek

There are leaders, and there are those who lead.

Simon Sinek

Be the leader you wish you had.

Simon Sinek

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.

Simon Sinek

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Simon Sinek

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Simon Sinek

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Simon Sinek

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.

Thomas Jefferson

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Rick Santelli

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

Rick Santorum

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.