Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 64

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Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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People are training for success when they should be training for failure.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Encourage the many; mentor the few.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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You can't become a leader in one conference.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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You don't become an effective leader by default.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Listen twice as much as you speak.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Leadership
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The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Leadership
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What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Leadership
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30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Leadership
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A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Leadership
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If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Jack Ma
Collection: Leadership
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Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Leadership
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An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
- Bruce Barton
Collection: Leadership
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The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.
- Simon Sinek
Collection: Leadership
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The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell
Collection: Leadership
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Collection: Leadership
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When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
- Jack Welch
Collection: Leadership
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Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
- Jocko Willink
Collection: Leadership
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A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Leadership
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A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth H. Blanchard
Collection: Leadership
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore Hesburgh
Collection: Leadership
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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 F. Drucker
Collection: Leadership
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Collection: Leadership
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Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
- H. Ross Perot
Collection: Leadership
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You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
- Ken Kesey
Collection: Leadership
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
- Rosalynn Carter
Collection: Leadership
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Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Leadership
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Leadership
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
- Sam Walton
Collection: Leadership
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Great leaders hire outstanding people, train them well, inspire them, and then get out of their way.
- Frank Sonnenberg
Collection: Leadership
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Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
Collection: Leadership
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee’s skill, he doesn’t just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
- Shawn Achor
Collection: Leadership