Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ross Perot

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Ross Perot

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Ross Perot

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

Ron Jaworski

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

Ron Jaworski

When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

Ron Kind

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Ron Kind

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

Roger Maris

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Rush Limbaugh

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Rush Limbaugh

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Thomas Carlyle

Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

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.

Tony Dungy

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

Tony Dungy

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

Tony Dungy

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

Tony Dungy

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

Tony Dungy

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Tony Dungy

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Tony Campolo

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Steve Nash

Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.

Steve Miller

No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.

Stefan Zweig

Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

Stefan Zweig

Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he himselfremained in the shadow as the source of light always does. But he who points the way into a new era is no less worthy of veneration than he who is the first to enter it; those who work invisibly have also accomplished a feat.

Sparky Anderson

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Thomas Leonard

Clarity affords focus.

Vilfredo Pareto

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Victor Cousin

You can only govern men by serving them.

Vernon Jordan

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Robert Foster Bennett

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.