Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Covey

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Thomas Carlyle

Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Thomas Carlyle

Leaders: Captains of industry.

Thomas Carlyle

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

Tony Hsieh

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Tony Dungy

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

Tony Dungy

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

Tony Dungy

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

Tony Dungy

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Tony Dungy

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Tony Campolo

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Steve Nash

Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

Steve Miller

No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.

Steve Ballmer

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

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