Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Sheryl Swoopes

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

Sheryl Swoopes

...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.

Sheryl Sandberg

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

Shelagh Delaney

Life is a game - sometimes serious, sometimes fun - but a game that must be played with true team spirit.

Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Tony Robbins

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

Tony Robbins

The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

Tony Robbins

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

Tony Robbins

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Tony Blair

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Simon Sinek

Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.

Simon Sinek

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.

Simon Sinek

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Simon Sinek

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

Simon Sinek

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.

Simon Mainwaring

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

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.