Here is the first page of my wonderful collection of leadership quotes. These are leadership quotes from the "A's and B's". That means within this selection you will find quotations from John Buchan, George Bush, Balzac, Aristotle, Jeff Bezos, Warren Bennis, Maya Angelou, Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismark, Francis Bacon, Woody Allen, Attilla the Hun and many many more!
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already."— John Buchan
"Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body:First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal. Don't say or do anything that may come back to haunt you on another issue, another day....Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're talking about....Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your power as a leader to persuade, not intimidate....Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they're at the bottom of the totem pole...."— George Bush
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living" - General Omar Nelson Bradley
"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not" - Lucille Ball
"True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be " - William R. Alger
"I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people to see better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in the air and trumpets blaring, activity."— Scott Berkun
"A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected" - Arnold Bennett
"Change in all things is sweet" - Aristotle
"Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision" - Anonymous
"If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place" - Attila the Hun
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito" - Anonymous
"Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others" - Anonymous
"Praise works with only three types of people; men, women, and children" - Anonymous
"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination" - Anonymous
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects the wind; the realist adjusts the sails" - Anonymous
"There’s never just one wet butt in a canoe. We’re all in this together" - Anonymous
"What you rub up against rubs off" - Anonymous
"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" - Alexander Graham Bell
"You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit" - Aristotle
"You have to find it ... no one else can find it for you" - Bjorn Borg
"Forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen" - Corazon Aquino
"In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent" - Chester Barnard
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funnybone and the wishbone that go with it." - Elaine Agather
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds" - Francis Bacon
"All rising to a great place is by a winding stair" - Francis Bacon
"I learned that good judgement comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - General Omar Nelson Bradley
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner" - General Omar Nelson Bradley
"The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead." - General Omar Nelson Bradley
"We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act, and in acting, to live" - General Omar Nelson Bradley
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats" - Howard Aiken
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave" - Henry Brougham
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability" - Harry F. Banks
"One of these days is none of these days." - H G Bohn
"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true" - Honore de Balzac
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." - Isaac Asimov
"If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me" - John Bunyan
"Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it" - James Truslow Adams
"Not everything that is faced can be changed; nothing can be changed until it is faced" - James Baldwin
"There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less" - Jeff Bezos
"There is no limit to the good man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit" - Judson B. Branch
"When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either" - Leo Burnett
"Without a dream there is no reason to work...without work there is no reason to dream." - Lee Ayers
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude" - Maya Angelou
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." - Margaret Bonnano
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it" - Marian Anderson
"Nobody can dim the light which shines from within" - Maya Angelo
"This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death" - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
"We must never say 'What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?' If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness" - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
"A leader is a dealer in hope" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Adversity is the midwife of genius" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Imagination rules the world" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Men of genius are meteors, intended to burn to light their century" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a God" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success" - Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck
"There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress upon his duties and responsibilities" - Paxton Blair
"Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere" - Robert Anthony
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win" - Roger Bannister
"The prudent man may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates it" - Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income." - Samuel Butler
"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." - St Augustine
"Failure is impossible" - Susan B. Anthony
"Independence is happiness" - Susan B. Anthony
"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less" - Susan B. Anthony
"The lash may force men to physical labour; it cannot force them to spiritual creativity" - Sholem Ash
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain" - Susan B. Anthony
"When you are not practising, remember, someone somewhere is practising ... and when you meet him, he will win" - Senator Bill Bradley
"If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world" - Vannevar Bush
"If you are not failing now and again, its a sign you're playing it safe" - Woody Allen
"If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself" - William J.H. Boetker
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality" - Warren Bennis
"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it" - Warren Bennis
"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 Bennis
"You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future" - Warren Bennis
"When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back" - Ying An
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch."— Jesus Christ
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."— Winston Churchill
"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever."— G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott
"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
"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."— J. Robert Clinton
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."— Stephen R. Covey
"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."— Peter F. Drucker
"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do."— Andrew Carnegie
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."— Max DePree
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
"No man will ever make a great leader who wants to do it all by himself or to get all the credit for doing it" - Andrew Carnegie
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible" - Arthur C. Clarke
"Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results" - Alfred Chandler
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong" - Arthur C. Clarke
"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." - Anthony J D'Angelo
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody" - Bill Cosby
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" - Benjamin Disraeli
"Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it" - Benjamin Disraeli
"The depositary of power is always unpopular" - Benjamin Disraeli
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to them their own" - Benjamin Disraeli
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Confucius
"A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties" - Confucius
"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast" - Charles Dickens
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand" - Confucius
"No person was ever honored for what they received. Honor has been the reward for what they gave" - Calvin Coolidge
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall" - Confucius
"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much - those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else" - Cyrus H. K. Curtis
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right" - Confucius
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm" - Democritus
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions." - Daniel Defoe
"Take a chance! All life is a chance" - Dale Carnegie
"The man who goes the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare" - Dale Carnegie
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" - Frederick Douglass
"A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it" - Henry L. Doherty
"There's plenty of room at the top, but there's no room to sit down" - Helen Downey
"A man who wants to lead an orchestra must turn his back on the crowd" - James Crook
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch" - Jesus Christ
"The leader’s job is not to cover all the bases - it is to see that all bases are covered" - James Crupi
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to ... " - Lewis Carroll
"The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done" - Lucius Columell
"Following the herd often leads to the slaughterhouse" - Nerella Campigotto
"He who stops being better, stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell
"Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force... " - Peter Drucker
"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two - and only two - functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs" - Peter Drucker
"Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change" - Peter Drucker
"Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation." - Peter Drucker
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes" - Peter Drucker
"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from" - Peter Ducker
"In today's economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge" - Peter Drucker
"It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Leadership is not a magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' - that is flattery. 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
"Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't" - Peter Drucker
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things" - Peter Drucker
"No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective" - Peter Drucker
"Only the bold get to the top" - Publius Syrus
"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work" - Peter Drucker
"Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable" - Peter Drucker
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work" - Peter Drucker
"The best way to predict the future is to create it" - Peter Drucker
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all" - Peter Drucker
"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed" - Peter Drucker
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans" - Peter Drucker
"Whenever anything is…being done, I have learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a mission" - Peter Drucker
"It's no good running a pig farm for 30 years while saying 'I was meant to be a dancer.' By that time, pigs are your style" - Quentin Crisp
"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
"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out" - Stephen R. Covey
"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most." - Stephen R Covey
"Keep in mind that you are always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things" - Steven Covey
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall" - Stephen R. Covey
"Nothing great was ever done without much enduring" - St Catherine of Siena
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them" - Stephen Covey
"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so" - Thomas Carlyle
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" - Winston Churchill
"A man should never neglect his family for business." - Walt Disney
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" - Winston Churchill
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential" - Winston Churchill
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict" - William Ellery Channing
"Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world." - Walt Disney
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter" - Walt Disney
"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught" - Winston Churchill
"I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it" - William DeMille
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it." - Walt Disney
"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse" - Walt Disney
"It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world" - William Corbett
"It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary" - Winston Churchill
"It's never crowded along the extra mile" - Wayne Dyer
"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened" - Winston Churchill
"Of the talents bestowed on men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory" - Winston Churchill
"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings" - Walt Disney
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers" - W. Edwards Deming
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" - Winston Churchill
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility" - Winston Churchill
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main ... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life." - Walt Disney
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is courage." - Walt Disney
"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved" - Walt Disney
"You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them" - Walt Disney
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."— Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The harder I worked, the luckier I got" - Sid Friedman
"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring" - Zelda Fitzgerald
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" - Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
"Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives" - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards" - Anatole France
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" - Anatole France
"Diligence is the mother of good luck" - Benjamin Franklin
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin
"Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any." - Danielle Fotopoulos
"Good enough never is" - Debbi Fields
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it" - Dwight Eisenhower
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." - Dwight Eisenhower
"Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers" - Euripides
"The crowd give the leader new strength." - Evenius
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest" - Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV
"If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members" - Francis Fukuyama
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Work on nothing less than epic scale" - Francis Ford Coppola
"Those who trust us, educate us" - George Eliot
"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement" - Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal" - Henry Ford
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership" - Harvey S. Firestone
"The question. 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." - Henry Ford
"To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control" - Henri Fayol
"Tomorrow belongs to women" - Helen Fisher
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do" - Henry Ford
"Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first." - Irwin Federman
"Your job gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect" - Irwin Federman
"Idealism and realism meet in the actual" - Mary Parker Follett
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it" - Margaret Fuller
"Beware what you set your heart upon for it shall surely be yours" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character is not made in a crisis, it is only exhibited" - Robert Freeman
"Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In every society, some men are born to rule, and some to advise" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence" - Sue Atchley Ebaugh
"Genius in one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" - Thomas Edison
"Great hopes make great men" - Thomas Fuller
"Let not thy will roar when thy power can be a whisper" - Thomas Fuller
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" - T.S. Eliot
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it" - Thomas Edison
"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something" - Thomas Edison
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else" - Umberto Eco
"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything" - Wyatt Earp
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."— John Kenneth Galbraith
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."— Harold Geneen
"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."— Henry Gilmer
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps" - David Lloyd George
"I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do."— Carlos Ghosn
"It doesn't take great men to do things, but it is doing things that makes men great" - Arnold Glasgow
"The true measure of a man is not the number of servants that he has, but the number of people he serves" - Arnold Glasgow
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favour of the idea that life is serious" - Brendan Gill
"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages" - Charles de Gaulle
"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless" - Charles De Gaulle
"The people we get along with, trust, feel simpatico with, are the strongest links in our networks" - Daniel Goleman
"Be yourself, who else is better qualified" - Frank J Giblin II
"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but please keep your doubts to yourself" - Goethe
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being" - Goethe
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe
"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself" - Galileo
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitudes and in actions." - Harold Geneen
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." - Indira Gandhi
"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well" - John W Gardner
"History never looks like history when you are living through it" - John W Gardner
"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are" - John W Gardner
"If you really want something, work hard, take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way" - Jane Goodall
"Josh Billings said, "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems. " - John W Gardner
"Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage" - John W Gardner
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. " - John W Gardner
"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor" - John W Gardner
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure" - John W Gardner
"Seven days without laughter makes one weak" - Joel Goodman
"Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them" - John W Gardner
"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are" - John W Gardner
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. " - John W Gardner
"The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught" - John W Gardner
"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything." " - John W Gardner
"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. " - John W Gardner
"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. " - John W Gardner
"The prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive" - John W Gardner
"The right man is the one who seizes the moment" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy" - John W Gardner
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents" - John W Gardner
"We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems" - John W Gardner
"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach" - John W Gardner
"The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none" - Kahlil Gibran
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
"The future depends on what we do in the present" - Mahatma Gandhi
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within" - Mahatma Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" - Mahatma Gandhi
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind" - Mahatma Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi
"All changes are created in a moment - with a simple choice" - R T Gorham
"We became uncompetitive by not being tolerant of mistakes" - Roberto Goizueta
"Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn't drive them. Ambition and values drive them" - Sumantra Ghoshal
"Competent people are the most resistant to change" - Seth Godin
"You have to create tension between reality and aspiration" - Sumantra Ghoshal
"You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist" - Seth Godin
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution" - Ulysses S. Grant
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving" - Ulysses S. Grant
"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate" - Vincent van Gogh
"If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced" - Vincent Van Gogh
"Love is something eternal--the aspect may change but not essence" - Vincent Van Gogh
"Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity" - Vincent van Gogh
"I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" - Wayne Gretzky
"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."— Dee Hock
"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."— Hesiod
"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."— Dag Hammarskjöld
"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group."— Sir John Harvey-Jones
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what has happened to him" - Aldous Huxley
"Darwin is probably a better guide to business competition than economists are" - Bruce Henderson
"Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers" - Charles Handy
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses" - Dag Hammarskjöld
"An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right" - Elbert Hubbard
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Elbert Hubbard
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" - Elbert Hubbard
"Power flows to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them" - Elbert Hubbard
"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience" - Elbert Hubbard
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one" - Elbert Hubbard
"The leader has to be practical and a realist; yet he must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." - Eric Hoffer
"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals" - Edmund Hillary
"Management within a society is very much constrained by its cultural context" - Geert Hofstede
"You manage things; you lead people" - Grace Murray Hopper
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." - Horace
"Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helped forward" - Heinrich Heine
"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice" - Heraclitus
"It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny" - Josiah G. Holland
"Never believe there is something you cannot do until proven otherwise." - Joshua Hill
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and picking people up" - John Andrew Holmes
"Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?" - Josh Hinds
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions" - Lillian Hellman
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" - Napoleon Hill
"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these" - Paul Harvey
"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." - Robert A Humphrey
"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." - Robert Half
"People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to" - Robert Half
"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability" - Robert Half
"Success is 99% failure" - Soichiro Honda
"The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good" - Thomas Hobbes
"The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet" - Theodore Hesburgh
"There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others" - Thomas Hobbes
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense" - Vaclav Havel
"People do not lack strength; they lack will" - Victor Hugo
"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said" - Vaclav Havel
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."— Henry Kissinger
"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
"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.
"A true leader creates a culture of spirits and hearts not just heads and hands" - Ed Konczal
"All wars are waged against children" - Eglantyne Jebb
"Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world" - Eglantyne Jebb
"Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds" - Eglantyne Jebb
"The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says 'Let's go!'" - E M Kelly
"We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world" - Eglantyne Jebb
"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget" - Franklin P Jones
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm" - Henrik Ibsen
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller
"I make more progress by having people around who are smarter than I am - and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am" - Henry J. Kaiser
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been" - Henry Kissinger
"Change is the law of life - and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future" - John F Kennedy
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got" - Janis Joplin
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside" - John F. Kennedy
"Its not what you are that counts, but what people think you are" - Joseph Kennedy
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other" - John F. Kennedy
"Leadership happens at every level of the organisation and no one can shirk from this responsibility" - Jerry Junkins
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together." - Jesse Jackson
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery" - James Joyce
"Nothing is so potent as the silent influence of a good example" - James Kent
"Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs" - Joseph M. Juran
"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that never were and say why not" - John F. Kennedy
"A leader's dynamic does not come from special powers. It comes from a strong belief in a purpose and a willingness to express that conviction" - Kouzes & Posner
"Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out" - Lee Iaccoca
"Management is nothing more than motivating other people" - Lee Iacocca
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere" - Lee Iacocca
"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values" - Martin Luther King, Jr
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it" - Michael Jordan
"One of the greatest failings of today's executive is his inability to do what he's supposed to do" - Malcolm Kent
"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own" - Michael Korda
"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step" - Martin Luther King
"Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets" - Philip Kotler
"It's alright to be Goliath, but always act like David" - Phil Knight
"See everything. Overlook a great deal. Improve a little" - Pope John XXIII
"The morale of an organization is not built from the bottom up; it filters from the top down" - Peter B. Kyne
"Only those that dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Francis Kennedy
"Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence" - Ray A. Kroc
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart" - Robert Ingersoll
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves" - Ray Kroc
"Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company" - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Clear your mind of can't" - Samuel Johnson
"Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy" - Sonia Johnson
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations" - Steve Jobs
"Great minds have purposes. Little minds have wishes" - Washington Irving
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind" - William James
"The greatest use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it" - William James
"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."— General Douglas MacArthur
"All Leadership is influence."— John C. Maxwell
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on."— Walter Lippmann
"The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men" - Miyamoto Musashi
"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
"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."— General Montgomery
"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."— Wangari Maathai
"A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management." - Akio Morita
"Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own" - Anne Mulcahy
"I've got to follow them, I'm their leader" - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
"Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative." - Akio Morita
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself" - Andre Malraux
"The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake." - Akio Morita
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force." - Andre Maurois
"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie" - Ann Landers
"Things may come to those who wait, but only what's left behind by those that hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it" - Abraham Lincoln
"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players" - Blaine Lee
"The leader who exercises power with honour will work from the inside out, starting with himself" - Blaine Lee
"Big shots are little shots who kept shooting" - Christopher Morley
"Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow" - Deng Ming-Dao
"Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best" - David O. McKay
"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra...Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?" - Dimitri Mitropolous
"Leadership is action, not position" - Donald McGannon
"There comes a time when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear" - David Mahoney
"When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another" - Edward Lorenz
"The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it" - Felix Morley
"Man's rank is his power to uplift" - George MacDonald
"Morale is a state of mind ... it is steadfastness and courage and hope ... it is confidence and zeal and loyalty ... it is staying power, the spirit which endures to the end – the will to win " - George C Marshall
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women." - Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read " - Groucho Marx
"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it" - Giuseppe Mazzini
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail " - Harold R. McAlindon
"Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does." - Harvey Mackay
"Ideas without action are worthless" - Harvey Mackay
"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." - Harvey Mackay
"Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense" - Henry Mintzberg
"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." - Harvey Mackay
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward through the night" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"All leadership is influence" - John Maxwell
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them" - John Maxwell
"Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others" - John Maxwell
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought" - John Stuart Mill
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning" - James Russell Lowell
"Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed" - John Allan May
"The first step to leadership is servanthood" - John Maxwell
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" - John Maxwell
"Nothing is so practical as a good theory" - Kurt Lewin
"You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go" - Lachlan McLean
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all" - Michelangelo
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change" - Mignon McLaughlin
"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it" - Mary's Almanac
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution" - Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" - Nelson Mandela
"He that would govern others first should be the master of himself" - Philip Massinger
"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it" - Philip Larkin
"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves” - Peter McArthur
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul Meyer
"The Nobel Peace Prize ... is an instrument with which to fight for peace, for justice, for the rights of those who suffer the abysmal economical, social, cultural and political inequalities" - Rigoberta Menchú
"Getting ahead in a difficult position requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night ... wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes ..." - T.E. Lawrence
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy" - Ursula LeGuin
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards" - Vernon Sanders Law
"Leaders are not born; they are made. And, they are made just like anything else - through hard work. And that is the price we'll have to pay to achieve any goal" - Vince Lombardi
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour" - Vince Lombardi
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on" - Walter Lippman
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation where common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully" - Walter Lippman
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."— General Colin Powell
"High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."— George Orwell
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" - Anais Nin
"Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself" - Blaise Pascal
"An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general" - Chinese Proverb
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today" - Cherokee proverb
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes" - Chinese proverb
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever" - Chinese proverb
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great" - Chinese Proverb
"Those who seek power for personal ends eventually run afoul of popular opinion" - Chinese Proverb
"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain" - Dolly Parton
"Talent … is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters, and rebels" - David Ogilivy
"You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to ... try to find something better to do" - David Packard
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is good? Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man" - Friedrich W. Nietzsche
"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader" - General George S. Patton Jr.
"Coaching isn't an addition to a leader's job, it's an integral part of it" - George S Odiorne
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results" - George S Patton
"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them." - General Colin Powell
"Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles" - George S. Patton
"You must be single-minded. Drive for one thing on which you have decided" - George S. Patton
"Often a dash of judgement is better than a flash of genius" - Howard W. Newton
"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." - H. Ross Perot
"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." - H Ross Perot
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work" - John G. Pollard
"Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows " - James McNerney
"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it" - John Naisbitt
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks" - Jack Penn
"The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present" - John Naisbitt
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" - Japanese proverb
"In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence" - Laurence J. Peter
"Knowledge flows along existing pathways in organisations. If we want to understand how to improve the flow of knowledge, we need to understand those pathways." - Larry Prusak
"Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously" - Michael Porter
"The best test of a man is authority" - Montenegran Proverb
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - Max De Pree
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader" - Max De Pree
"Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy" - Nicholas Negroponte
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism" - Norman Vincent Peale
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones" - Old Chinese Proverb
"Thy destiny is only that of a man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god" - Ovid
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living" - Plato
"To find fault is easy: to do better may be difficult" - Plutarch
"Where there is no vision the people perish" - Proverbs 29:18
"Eagles don't flock" - Ross Perot
"Forcefulness in the character of a chief executive is an invaluable quality" - Robert K. Patterson
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures" - Tom Peters
"Great design = WOW! + GRACE" - Tom Peters
"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade" - Tom Peters
"If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet" - Tom Peters
"If timing ain't everything, it's damn close" - Tom Peters
"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention" - Tom Peters
"One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period" - Tom Peters
"Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets" -Tom Peters
"Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today" - Tom Peters
"Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast" - Tom Peters
"Underpromise; overdeliver" - Tom Peters
"Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low" - Tom Peters
"You can't think your way out of a box, you've got to act" - Tom Peters
"Big thinking precedes great achievement" - Wilfred Peterson
"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgement is the treasurer of a wise man" - William Penn
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."— Sam Rayburn
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."— Theodore Roosevelt
"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."— Theodore Roosevelt
"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows."— Clarence Randall
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" - Ayn Rand
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just" - Anita Roddick OBE
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito" - Anita Roddick OBE
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possile to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
"Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgement" - Anthony Robbins
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them" - Dean Rusk
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we employ to hide them" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there." - Franklin D Roosevelt
"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility" - John Ruskin
"I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class manager running a first-rate business" - Jack E. Reichert
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it" - John Ruskin
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation, character" - John D. Rockefeller
"The road to happines lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have" - John D Rockefeller
"Assume nothing, pursue everything" - Kevin Riper
"A leader has two important characteristics; first he is going somewhere; second he is able to persuade others to go with him" - Maximilian Francois Robespierre
"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback" - Pat Riley
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer" - Rainer Maria Rilke
"The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service" - Sol Roth
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives" - Theodore Roosevelt
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling while they do it" - Theodore Roosevelt
"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces" - Wilma Rudolph
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces" - Will Rodgers
"It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing" - Quintilian
"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly" - Quintilian
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish" - Quintilian
"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."— Admiral James B. Stockdale
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve" - Albert Schweitzer
"He who has great power should use it lightly."— Seneca
"A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision" - Alan Sugar
"Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally" - Alan Sugar
"At best, only 2-3% of today’s established players are eagerly, earnestly, rigorously looking for the next wave in their own industry. They will pay a heavy price for this" - Adrian Slywotzky
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma" - Alan Sugar
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing" - Albert Schweitzer
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it" - Aung San Suu Kyi
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else." - Alan Sugar
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time" - Alexander Smith
"There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me." - Alan Sugar
"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows" - Alexandra Stoddard
"Men fail through a lack of purpose rather than lack of talent" - Billy Sunday
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try" - Beverly Sills
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want" - Dan Stanford
"Today's business leader cannot justify his existence by profit statements alone. He must also render service to his local, national and world community" - Dorothy Shaver
"No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man" - Ernest Shackleton
"The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them" - Edgar Schein
"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions" - George Bernard Shaw
"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do" - Gerry Sikorski
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw
"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy" - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations" - George Bernard Shaw
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn" - Gloria Steinem
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress in the world depends on the unreasonable man" - George Bernard Shaw
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn" - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious" - John Scully
"The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment" - John Sculley
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible" - Jonathan Swift
"I view models and prototypes as the battleground for thoughts and behaviours" - Michael Schrage
"Real commitment is rare ... 90% of the time what passes for commitment is compliance" - Peter Senge
"Anything worth doing, is worth doing now." - Ralph Stayer
"Change the rules before somebody else does" - Ralph Seferian
"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives" - Robert South
"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place" - Robert Schumann
"Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation" - Roger Staubach
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you" - Ralph W. Sockman
"You don't just stumble into your future, you create your own future" - Roger Smith
"Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war" - Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be" - Socrates
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers" - Seneca
"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles
"In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design" - Thomas Stewart
"Networks irrevocably subvert managerial authority" - Thomas Stewart
“Where success comes before work is a dictionary" - Vidal Sassoon
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them" - William Shakespeare
"To thine ownself be true" - William Shakespeare
"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"— Lao-Tsu
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."— Harry Truman
"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading" - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"— Lao-Tse
"Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot" - Alexis De Tocqueville
"If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production" - Alvin Tofler
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction" - Alvin Toffler
"As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG" - Donald Trump
"Instead of waiting for someone to take you under his wing, go out and find a wing to climb under" - David Thomas
"In every triumph there's a lot of try" - Frank Tyger
"The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas" - Fons Trompenaars
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you" - Frank Tyger
"I never did give anybody hell, I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell" - Harry S Truman
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours" - Henry David Thoreau
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ... now put foundations under them" - Henry David Thoreau
"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it" - Harry S. Truman
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change: we change" - Henry David Thoreau
"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" - Lao-Tzu
"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots" - Jean Toomer
"A Leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done ... they will say "We did it ourselves"" - Lao-Tzu
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy
"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say that it happened naturally." - Lao Tse
"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier" - Mother Theresa
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction" - Margaret Thatcher
"Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation" - Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug" - Mark Twain
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" - Mark Twain
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one" - Mark Twain
"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot" - Margaret Thatcher
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose" - Margaret Thatcher
"Life's greatest gift is natural talent" - P. K. Thomajan
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfil his destiny." - Paul Tillich
"Out of the frying pan into the fire" - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
"Big companies are small companies that succeeded" - Robert Townsend
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu
"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before his battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand" - Sun Tzu
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep" - Talleyrand
"Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader" - Tacitus
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word" - William Makepeace Thackeray
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature" - Zeno
"The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less" - Zeno
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals" - Zig Ziglar
"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue" - Xenocrates
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation" - Xenophon
"A beginner's mind leads you where you need to go" - Zen Anonymous
"A thousand mile journey begins with one step" - Zen saying
"Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship" - Zeuxis
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."— Gary Wills
"Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy."— Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)
"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values."— Mike Vance
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."— Jack Welch
"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing" - Alexander Woollcott
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them" - Booker T. Washington
"Inspired leaders move a business beyond problems into opportunities" - Dr. Abraham Zaleznik
"Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!" - Dr James S Vuocolo
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power" - Daniel Webster
"Wise people learn when they can. Fools learn when they must" - Duke of Wellington
"None think the great unhappy but the great" - Edward Young
"There are two ways of speading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" - Edith Wharton
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership" - Faye Wattleton
"Conduct is more convincing than language" - John Woolman
"If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by" - Jack Welch
"Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking." - Jack Welch
"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy" - Luc De Vauvenargues
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything" - Malcolm X
"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today" - Malcolm X
"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action." - Malcolm X
"It's not what you say, but how you say it!" - Mae West
"Stumbling is not falling" - Malcolm X
"The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one" - Max Weber
"There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time." " - Malcolm X
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success" - Oscar Wilde
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment" - Oprah Winfrey
"People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing" - Oprah Winfrey
"Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority" - Oscar Wilde
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less" - Rick Warren
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - Thomas Watson
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J Watson
"Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is the essence of leadership." - Theodore H White
"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything" - Unknown
"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have, is a necessary ingredient of a career" - Unknown
"Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match" - Unknown
"Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves" - Unknown
"Don't use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice" - Unknown
"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it" - Unknown
"If you have the ability to reach, the top is always vacant." - Unknown
"It is better to be defeated with integrity, than to win without it" - Unknown
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings" - Unknown
"No one achieves their dream without a goal real enough to taste, a reason strong enough to move mountains, a strategy as specific as a road map, and a willingness to take action no matter what the circumstances" - Unknown
"Take what you learn and make a difference with it" - Unknown
"The greatest pleasure in life is being able to do what someone else told you you'd fail at. I'm a strong enough person to accept failure, but I'm not strong enough to handle not trying." - Unknown
"The words we attach to our experiences, become our experience" - Unknown
"There is plenty of room at the top - but no place to sit down" - Unknown
"To one that is afraid, all seems dim" - Unknown
"We are the only ones who have the power to accomplish what we set out to do." - Unknown
"Change everything, except your loves" - Voltaire
"They can because they think they can " - Virgil
