Leadership
Quotes
“Leadership is not about maintaining the status
quo, but maintaining the highest rate of change
that the organization and the people within it can
stand.”
Sir John Harvey-Jones
“I can make myself rich or my country .”
Lee Kuan Yew
“There is nothing more difficult to take in
hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the
lead in the introduction of a new order of
things. Because the innovator has for
enemies all those who have done well
under the old conditions, and lukewarm
defenders in those who may do well under
the new.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“There is no such thing as a bad soldier,
only a bad officer.”
Napoleon
"Judge a man on how he reacts to failure,
not success"
Martin Luther King
“One of the most liberating leadership
principles is
I don’t have to be right.”
John Naisbitt
“When you're the boss, the only place you
should point fingers is at the mirror.”
Annomous
“To lead the people, walk behind them.”
Lao Tzu
“Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“Individuals play the game, but teams beat
the odds.”
Navy SEAL team saying
“Good business leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision, passionately own the
vision, and relentlessly drive it to
completion.”
Jack Welch
“Social media requires that business
leaders start thinking like small-town
shop owners. This means taking the long
view and avoiding short-term benchmarks
to gauge progress. It means allowing the
personality, heart and soul of the people
who run all levels of the business to
show.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
“The ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort
but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy.”
Martin Luther King Jr
“People buy into the leader before they
buy into the vision.”
John Maxwell
“Sometimes, I think my most important
job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If
you don’t act on it, your people will
eventually stop bringing bad news to your
attention and that is the beginning of the
end.”
Bill Gates
“Be great in little things.”
St. Francis Xavier
. “Do not fear when your enemies criticize
you. Beware when they applaud.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Giving people self confidence is by far the
most important thing that I can do
because then they will act.”
Jack Welch
“If your actions inspire others to dream
more, learn more, do more and become
more, you are a leader.”
-John Quincy Adams
“The pessimist complains about the wind.
The optimist expects it to change. The
leader adjusts the sails.”
John Maxwell
“Innovation distinguishes between a
leader and a follower.”
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder