Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Mike Murdock

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

John Wooden

The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.

John Wooden

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.

John Wooden

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

John Wooden

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

John Wooden

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

John Wooden

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

John Wooden

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

John Wooden

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

Max Stirner

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

Max Weber

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

Max de Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Max de Pree

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

Max de Pree

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Max de Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max Beerbohm

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Marilyn vos Savant

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

Maria Montessori

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

Pat Riley

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Plato

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Philip Zimbardo

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

Phil Knight

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Lech Walesa

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Peter Drucker

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Peter Drucker

People learn the most when teaching others.

Peter Drucker

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Peter Drucker

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Peter Drucker

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.