Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.

Peter Drucker

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Peter Drucker

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Peter Drucker

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Peggy Fleming

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Paulo Coelho

The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going...

Maya Angelou

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

Merlin Olsen

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Mason Cooley

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Mary Kay Ash

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Mary Kay Ash

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Mary Kay Ash

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mencius

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Michael Josephson

Surround our children with a message of honor

Michael Josephson

What you allow you encourage.

Michael Jordan

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

Marie Lu

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

Ted Cruz

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate. Given the choice between being reviled in Washington, DC, and appreciated in Texas, or reviled in Texas and appreciated in Washington, I would take the former 100 out of 100 times.

Ted Cruz

Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.

Ted Cruz

Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.

Ted Cruz

I think what Republicans want is someone who will stand up and lead, who will take on the great challenges of the day, who will make the case that the path we're on isn't working; that the Obama-economy is a disaster, that Obamacare is a trainwreck, that our constitutional rights are under assault and that we need to restore America's leadership in the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Theodore Roosevelt

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Theodore Roosevelt

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.