Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

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

John P. Kotter

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John P. Kotter

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

John P. Kotter

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

John P. Kotter

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John Owen

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces - self-denial, readiness to the cross - they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.

Norman Cousins

The most costly disease is boredom costly for both individual and society.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Michael Kirby

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

Mark Twain

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

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.

Snoop Dogg

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Nick Vujicic

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Nolan Ryan

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Margaret Cho

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.