Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max de Pree

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Marilyn vos Savant

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

Maria Montessori

Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

Pat Riley

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Plato

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Phil Knight

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Peter Drucker

People learn the most when teaching others.

Peter Drucker

If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.

Peter Drucker

The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Peter Drucker

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Peter Drucker

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

Peter Drucker

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

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.