Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 20

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Image of Gabrielle Reece
Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.
- Gabrielle Reece
Collection: Leadership
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Leadership
Image of Gail Sheehy
Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.
- Gail Sheehy
Collection: Leadership
Image of Carl Yastrzemski
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
- Carl Yastrzemski
Collection: Leadership
Image of Warren G. Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
Image of Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you do a job, do it right or there is no point.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.
Collection: Leadership
Image of John Ilhan
If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.
- John Ilhan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Carl Icahn
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
- Carl Icahn
Collection: Leadership
Image of Larry Crabb
A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
- Larry Crabb
Collection: Leadership
Image of Richard Branson
If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Leadership
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A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
- Richard Branson
Collection: Leadership
Image of Earl Weaver
Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
- Earl Weaver
Collection: Leadership
Image of Margaret J. Wheatley
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Leadership
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I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Leadership
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It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Leadership
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Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Nathaniel Branden
How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?
- Nathaniel Branden
Collection: Leadership
Image of Charles Henry Parkhurst
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Collection: Leadership
Image of Vanna Bonta
Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.
- Vanna Bonta
Collection: Leadership
Image of Andy Stanley
Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say
- Andy Stanley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Robert Henry Grant
A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.
- Robert Henry Grant
Collection: Leadership
Image of Eric Schmidt
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.
- Eric Schmidt
Collection: Leadership
Image of Fran Tarkenton
None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
- Fran Tarkenton
Collection: Leadership
Image of Fernand Braudel
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
- Fernand Braudel
Collection: Leadership
Image of Reza Aslan
If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.
- Reza Aslan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Janet Reno
Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.
- Janet Reno
Collection: Leadership
Image of David Seabury
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
- David Seabury
Collection: Leadership
Image of Norman Schwarzkopf
I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
Collection: Leadership
Image of 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.
- Maria Montessori
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bill Veeck
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
- Bill Veeck
Collection: Leadership
Image of Wilferd Peterson
The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.
- Wilferd Peterson
Collection: Leadership
Image of Friedrich Schiller
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
- Friedrich Schiller
Collection: Leadership
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When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.
- Patrick Lencioni
Collection: Leadership
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Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.
- Patrick Lencioni
Collection: Leadership
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As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.
- Patrick Lencioni
Collection: Leadership
Image of David Niven
True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.
- David Niven
Collection: Leadership
Image of Carrie Underwood
It's hard to look at things that are too close.
- Carrie Underwood
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Collection: Leadership
Image of Kevin Rudd
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.
- Kevin Rudd
Collection: Leadership
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The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.
- Kevin Rudd
Collection: Leadership
Image of Edward Bernays
If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn.
- Edward Bernays
Collection: Leadership
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We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.
- Edward Bernays
Collection: Leadership
Image of Margaret Thatcher
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Leadership