Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Barton

You need a leadership team that's ready to go to work next week, not next summer.

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Ronald Reagan

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

Rumi

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Roy Haynes

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

Roy Blunt

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

Rosa Luxemburg

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Rosa Luxemburg

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

Susan Collins

One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.

Susan Collins

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Susan Collins

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

Stuart Rose

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Solon

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Steve Jobs

Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed

Steve Jobs

Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.

Steve Jobs

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Steve Jobs

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Steve Jobs

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Mike Krzyzewski

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Mike Krzyzewski

As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission

Mike Krzyzewski

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Mike Huckabee

I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Peter Thiel

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.