Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rick Riordan

Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.

Rick Riordan

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

Richard Branson

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

Richard Branson

You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.

Richard Branson

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

Richard Branson

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Richard Branson

To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

Richard Branson

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

Richard Branson

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

Richard Branson

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Richard Branson

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Robert Andrews Millikan

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

Robert A. Heinlein

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Steven Spielberg

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Tom Vilsack

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.

Rebecca MacKinnon

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Vilfredo Pareto

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Victor Cousin

You can only govern men by serving them.

Vicente Fox

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Vernon Davis

Be a leader, not a follower. Never let anyone tell you what you can and cannot be.

Vernon Jordan

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Robert Foster Bennett

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Rick Larsen

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Richard Marcinko

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Thornton Wilder

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?