Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Landry

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

Tom Ford

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Steve Largent

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

Stephen Covey

"You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy their heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can't buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his his resourcefulness."

Stephen Covey

Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.

Stephen Covey

When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders.

Stephen Covey

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Stephen Covey

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Stephen Covey

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

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.