Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Ballmer

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Stendhal

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stanley A. McChrystal

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Sigmund Freud

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Shirley Hazzard

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

We need a leader who understands the moral case for free enterprise.

Shawn Achor

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Susan Jeffers

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?

Sun Tzu

Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

Sun Tzu

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Robbie Fowler

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

Reza Aslan

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

Rick Warren

Doing the easy thing makes you popular. Doing the hard thing makes you a leader.

Rick Warren

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

Rick Warren

Leaders don't do what they WANT to do;they do whatever is necessary.

Rick Warren

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Trenton Lee Stewart

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

Tracy Austin

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

Vince Lombardi

A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

Vince Lombardi

When you travel with the team and you eat with the team - you eat what the team eats.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

Vince Lombardi

A man is known by the company he owns.

Vince Lombardi

I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Vince Lombardi

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Vince Lombardi

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.