Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

Anita Roddick

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Anita Roddick

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

Chuck Knox

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Knox

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Chuck Hagel

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Anne Bancroft

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Andrew Carnegie

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Anne Sweeney

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Anne Sweeney

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Angela Davis

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Althea Gibson

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Andre Malraux

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Ambrose Bierce

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

Ambrose Bierce

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.

Ambrose Bierce

adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.

Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Aeschylus

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Alexander Pope

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

E. P. Thompson

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Douglas MacArthur

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Donald Trump

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Donald Trump

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Duffy Daugherty

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Donald Rumsfeld

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.