Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. Jorge Luis Borges
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Dr. Seuss
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein
Writing is a product of silence and solitude. Unknown
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self,
to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of
their power. Toni Morrison
One can never be alone enough to write. Susan Sontag
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it. Lloyd Alexander
Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from
nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously
unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your
job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.
Stephen King
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a
refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed
in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination. Stephen
King
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. Stephen King
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. Franz Kafka
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I
do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. Dr. Seuss
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty
unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the
opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. Naomi Judd
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise
incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how
you write. Somerset Maugham
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad
We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our
lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find
ways to make them interesting. John Updike
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if
you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing
In solitude I find my answers. Kristen Butler
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you
are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical
sentences. Anne McCaffrey
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and
society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone,
uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an
undertaking. Jessamyn West
Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An
overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand
for everything. Stephen King
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett
The best thinking has been done in solitude. Thomas Edison
Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. Virginia Woolf
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. Jean Cocteau
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either. Robert Graves
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Robert Frost
Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. Marianne Moore
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all
storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets
share something in common: They had something to say, and did. Sarah Kay
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. Paul Valery
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Kahlil Gibran
Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. Helen Hayes
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. Jean-Paul Sartre
Poetry is an act of peace. Pablo Neruda
Style means the right word. The rest matters little. Jules Renard
I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. Tom Clancy
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. Hunter S. Thompson
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound
My aim in constructing sentences is to make the sentence
utterly easy to understand, writing what I call transparent prose. I’ve
failed dreadfully if you have to read a sentence twice to figure out
what I meant. Ken Follett
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. Philip Pullman
I want the story to have a rhythm that keeps moving
forward. Because that’s the whole point of telling a story. You’re on a
journey — you’re going from here to there. It’s got to move. Ursula K.
Le Guin
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. Henry David Thoreau
I have been successful probably because I have always
realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell
an interesting story entertainingly. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov
And one of [the things you learn as you get older] is,
you really need less… My model for this is late Beethoven. He moves so
strangely and quite suddenly sometimes from place to place in his music,
in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t
want to waste all that time getting there. … One is aware of this as one
gets older. You can’t waste time. Ursula K. Le Guin
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart
feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your
games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive
element in your style. Stephen King
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing
is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you’re
maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. Stephen King
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone.
Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a
story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering
children, but it must be done. Stephen King
Part 1. I notice that you use plain, simple language,
short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English – it
is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and
flowers and verbosity creep in. Mark Twain
Part 2. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t
mean utterly, but kill most of them – then the rest will be valuable.
They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they
are wide apart. Mark Twain
Part 3. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery
habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any
other vice. Mark Twain
All stories have to at least try to explain some small portion of the meaning of life. Gene Weingarten
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. Jodi Picoult
It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer. Gerald Brenan
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. William Somerset Maugham
Trust your reader, don’t try to describe things. Give a
hint and they will fulfill this hint with their own imagination. Paulo
Coelho
The blizzard doesn’t last forever; it just seems so. Ray Bradbury
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins.
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most
of all, endurance. James Baldwin
In a story it’s the scene – the setting / characters /
action / interaction / dialogue / feelings – that makes us hold our
breath, and cry .. and turn the page to find out what happens next. And
so, until the scene ends, each sentence should lead to the next
sentence. Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have
to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process,
but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as
you may have noticed. J.K. Rowling
I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so
I can’t really say where the desire came from; I’ve always had it. My
breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot
of publishers turned it down. J.K. Rowling
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose
track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps.
Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised. John Steinbeck
As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this
as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I
write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets,
dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know
them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify
about them. Ursula K. Le Guin
Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be
a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard,
constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as
writer. Ray Bradbury
The more I’m let alone and not worried the better I can function. Ernest Hemingway
I go out to my little office, where I’ve got a
manuscript, and the last page I was happy with is on top. I read that,
and it’s like getting on a taxiway. I’m able to go through and revise it
and put myself – click – back into that world. Stephen King
When I’m working I work every day, three, four hours, and
I try to get those six pages and I try to get them faily clean. Stephen
King
All my life as a writer I have been committed to the idea
that in fiction the story value holds dominance over every other facet
of the writer’s craft; characterization, theme, mood, none of these
things is anything if the story is dull. And if the story does hold you,
all else can be forgiven. Stephen King
On first drafts: It is completely raw, the sort of thing I
feel free to do with the door shut — it’s the story undressed, standing
up in nothing but its socks and undershorts. Stephen King
Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it
of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it
sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to
your friend, if he be an author especially. Amos Bronson Alcott
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the
creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book
quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep
in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the
sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything. Virginia
Woolf
Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the
book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. Annie
Dillard
First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him. Ray Bradbury
Anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference. Mark Sanborn
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell
Do what is right, not what is easy. Unknown
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors. Jocko Willink
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. Sheryl Sandberg
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe
in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. Seth
Godin
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock,
letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not
realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson
Mandela
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Peter F. Drucker
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William
Arthur Ward
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a
wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the
start, you’ll never stick it out. Steve Jobs
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set
aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
Brandon Sanderson
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know
when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. Unknown (Submitted
by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change
opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically
when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t
care if they like it. Tina Fey
You don’t need a title to be a leader. Mark Sanborn
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an
excellent leader. Dolly Parton
A boss has the title, a leader has the people. Simon Sinek
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
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. Kofi Annan
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen R. Covey
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Warren Bennis
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself.
It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis
A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. Isaac Newton
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not
thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence. Albert Einstein
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. Faye Wattleton
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or
if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the
great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must
begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you
made them feel. Maya Angelou
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt
We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. Buddha
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when
his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being
uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for
living a dream. Peter McWilliams
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. Winston Churchill
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
To lead people, walk behind them. Lao Tzu
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
All leaders are readers. Jim Rohn
Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schutz
Act or do not act, but do not hedge. Peter F. Drucker
What gets measured gets improved. Peter F. Drucker
Discipline equals freedom. Jocko Willink
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. Theodore Hesburgh
Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference. Robin Sharma
Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results. Robin Sharma
Ego clouds and disrupts everything. Jocko Willink
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego. Jocko Willink
The cautious seldom err. Confucius
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. John Naisbitt
Earn your leadership every day. Michael Jordan
My life didn’t please me, so I created my life. Coco Chanel
There is always room at the top. Daniel Webster
Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain. Max De Pree
Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts. John Paul Warren
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. Nelson Mandela
Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
A king is one who fears nothing. Seneca
Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Leaders live by choice, not by accident. Mark Gorman
The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you? Mark Sanborn
You manage things; you lead people. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus
One voice can change a room. Barack Obama
What does your heart say? Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us. Barack Obama
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. H. Ross Perot
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
If your objective is to be as good as you can be, then you’re going to want criticism. Ray Dalio
The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance. Peter F. Drucker
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
Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory. Jocko Willink
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about
it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it. Jocko Willink
To be more requires a man who is conceited enough to
believe that the world really needs him and depends on his getting into
power. Peter F. Drucker
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who
can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution
everybody can understand. Colin Powell
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson
Leadership is a mindset in action. So don’t wait for the
title. Leadership isn’t something that anyone can give you – you have to
earn it and claim it for yourself. Travis Bradberry
It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Mark Cuban
You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. Travis Bradberry
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe
him. Study him. But don’t worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe
you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are
invariably second-best doers. David J. Schwartz
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become. DeSeaux
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold
steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient
sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way
for oncoming generations. Anna Garlin Spencer
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream. Warren Bennis
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Cossman
A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger
It’s your unlimited power to create and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. Tony Robbins
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of
life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to
achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all
your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find the happiness
that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your
greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by
claiming it as your own. Alan Cohen
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is
to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whoopi
Goldberg
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. Albert Einstein
Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey. Charles S. Lauer
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Colin Powell
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women. Groucho Marx
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell
You either run with lions or walk with sheep. Matshona Dhliwayo
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big
mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big
mistakes a year. Peter F. Drucker
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. Tina Fey
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a
construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A
white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, ‘I don’t
make way for gorillas.’ At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep
sweeping gesture, and said, ‘Ah, yes, but I do.’ Walter Wink
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. George Patton
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not
imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at
Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J.P. Morgan
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you. Don Marquis
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai Stevenson
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great. Golda Meir
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. Warren Bennis
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the
learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that
no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
You are judged in this world by how well you bring things
to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years
to come. Robert Greene
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeanette Rankin
Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise. Peter F. Drucker
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. Patrick Ness
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche
People don’t buy what do you, they buy why you do it. Simon Sinek
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. Warren Bennis
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John Maxwell
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. Mary D. Poole
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. Dianne Feinstein
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas John Carlisle
If you are rich and powerful but unhappy, what’s the point of being rich and powerful? Thich Nhat Hanh
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren Bennis
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. Ernest Becker
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. John Gardner
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader
Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy. Paul Polman
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance,
sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses
put together. Warren Bennis
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. John Zenger
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders
raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their
own bar. Orrin Woodward
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. Max De Pree
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. Max De Pree
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Tom Rath
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. Peter F. Drucker
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action. Mark Manson
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right. Peter F. Drucker
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and
dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers
flourish. Warren Bennis
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. Leroy Eimes
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. Diogenes
When people are financially invested, they want a return.
When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. Simon
Sinek
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than
his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell
If our drive to get and maintain power drains us and
strains our relationships, we never truly enjoy our professional or
material success and it’s simply not worth it. Thich Nhat Hanh
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model
obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Brad Szollose
Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. Stanley McChrystal
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. Seneca
The highest of distinctions is service to others. King George VI
Don’t forget to do something for other people. Marc Benioff
One of the quickest ways to gain someone’s trust is to help that person. Justin Bariso
You’ve got to help others. Don’t just think about yourself. Help others. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people. Simon Sinek
Help your people grow and perform at their highest possible levels. Robert K. Greenleaf
Growing people and helping them to perform at high levels
is a key strategy for long-term success. When employees grow, their
productive capacity increases. When their productive capacity increases,
the capacity of the organization increases–it can do things better, or
it can do things it was not able to do before. Kent M. Keith
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the
natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious
choice brings one to aspire to lead. Robert K. Greenleaf
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill
If you want to lead on the highest level, be willing to serve on the lowest. John C. Maxwell
Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood. Max De Pree
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 leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs. Max De Pree
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. Aristotle
We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves. Christiana Figueres
Servant leadership pumps up the team with confidence, which leads to high-performance. Marcel Schwantes
When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked
through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.
You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped
you succeed. Michelle Obama
I think leadership is service and there is power in that
giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their
fullest potential. Denise Morrison
Employees of servant leaders are more helping and
creative than those working with leaders who scored lower on servant
leadership. Marcel Schwantes
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. Sam Rayburn
Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world;
there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.
Roy T. Bennett
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a
sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader.
Stanley McChrystal
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. Peter F. Drucker
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
Are leaders born or made? This is a false dichotomy –
leaders are neither born nor made. Leaders choose to be leaders. Stephen
R. Covey
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking
charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated
person. Warren Bennis
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s
somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always
necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and
school. Oprah Winfrey
It’s not the absence of leadership potential that
inhibits the development of more leaders; it’s the persistence of the
myth that leadership can’t be learned. This haunting myth is a far more
powerful deterrent to leadership development than is the nature of the
person or the basics of the leadership process. James Kouzes and Barry
Posner
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. Marcus Aurelius
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their
lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren
Bennis
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be
your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from
everyone else. Sara Blakely
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a
world that no longer exists. Warren Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be
content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of
standing out. Warren Bennis
Being humble doesn’t mean that you lack self-confidence,
or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does
mean recognizing that you don’t know everything – and that you’re
willing to learn from others. Justin Bariso
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that
intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share
your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. Wendy Kopp
Teamwork makes the dream work. John C. Maxwell
It takes two flints to make a fire. Louisa May Alcott
The effective executive does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength. Peter F. Drucker
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would
be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. G.
K. Chesterton
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes
help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the
common good, and build community. Joseph Rost
The most effective leaders aren’t extraverts or
introverts. They’re ambiverts: people who strike a balance of talking
and listening. Adam Grant
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
Leadership and management are not synonymous. Travis Bradberry
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. Barbara Corcoran
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to
pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from
meddling with them while they do it. Theodore Roosevelt
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
My jobs as a leader is to make sure everybody in the
company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a
meaningful impact. Larry Page (Google)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then, you have to play it better than anyone else. Albert Einstein
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
In your actions, don’t procrastinate. In your
conversations, don’t confuse. In your thoughts, don’t wander. In your
soul, don’t be passive or aggressive. In your life, don’t be all about
business. Marcus Aurelius
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. Timothy R. Clark
All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves. Jag Randhawa
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen R. Covey
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. Napoleon Hill
Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. Kenyan Proverb
I know of no single formula for success. But over the
years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal
and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their
efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their
inspiration to work together. Queen Elizabeth II
Culture is about performance, and making people feel good about how they contribute to the whole. Tracy Streckenbach
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take
these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Steve Jobs
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what
makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilisation work.
Vince Lombardi
The strength of the team is each member. The strength of each member is the team. Phil Jackson
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your
customer. I think you build one with your employees first. Angela
Ahrendts
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. Thomas Carlyle
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. H.E. Luccock
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team. Reid Hoffman
Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it. Rosemary Brown
When people talk, listen completely. Ernest Hemingway
Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess. Richard Branson
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the
right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice
mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is
universal thing, taught by all religions. Thich Nhat Hanh
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. Marian Anderson
I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are. Joan Rivers
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and
you help them become what they are capable of being. Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus
The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is
kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for
others’ work. It’s a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not
looking weak. Travis Bradberry
Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last. Ian Hutchinson
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. Francis Hesselbein
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the
greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man
is by appreciation and encouragement. Charles Schwab
Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly. Tony Robbins
Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel
like they’re having a one-on-one conversation, as if they’re the only
person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable
leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level. Travis
Bradberry
People want to know they matter and they want to be treated as people. That’s the new talent contract. Pamela Stroko
Being a good leader requires remembering that you’re
there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn’t to have your way.
High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism – they
insist on it. Travis Bradberry
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly
everything you need to know about your organization’s overall
performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow.
Jack Welch
“Turned on” people figure out how to beat the
competition, “Turned off” people only complain about being beaten by the
competition. Ben Simonton
Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals
of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of
energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in
their job. Ken Blanchard
The way your employees feel is the way your customers
will feel. And if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your
customers. Sybil F. Stershic
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter. Jaachynma N.E. Agu
You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Power isn’t control at all–power is strength, and giving
that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to
make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to
others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. Beth Revis
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is
humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle
and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting
yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.” Lao Tzu
Sharing emotions builds deeper relationships. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don’t keep it a secret. Mary Kay Ash
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. Donald Miller
Change before you have to. Jack Welch
Leadership is an ever-evolving position. Mike Krzyzewski
In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max De Pree
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Warren Bennis
Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow. Warren Bennis
Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would,
but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your
life will flow well. Epictetus
In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital. Warren Bennis
The higher you want to climb, the more you need
leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your
influence needs to be. John C. Maxwell
The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations,
disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned
citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever
has. Margaret Mead
There’s nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can’t
clearly articulate why we’re doing what we’re doing. James Kouzes and
Barry Posner
The domain of leaders is the future. The leader’s unique
legacy is the creation of valued institutions that survive over time.
The most significant contribution leaders make is not simply to today’s
bottom line; it is to the long-term development of people and
institutions so they can adapt, change, prosper, and grow. James Kouzes
and Barry Posner
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor
the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles
Darwin
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing
you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is
nothing you cannot achieve. Lao Tzu
Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. Margaret Mead
The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. Michael Porter
The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King Jr
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen R. Covey
The term ‘power’ comes from the Latin posse: to do, to be
able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess
the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must
make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will
it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well? Al Gini
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
Effectiveness is a habit. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives […] try to find the constants in a
situation, to think through what is strategic and generic rather than to
‘solve problems’. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives […] want impact rather than technique. And they want to be sound rather than clever. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives do not start out with their tasks.
They start out with their time. And they do not start out with planning.
They start by finding out where their time actually goes. Peter F.
Drucker
All one has to do is to learn to say “no” if an activity
contributes nothing to one’s own organization, to oneself, or to the
organization for whom it is to be performed. Peter F. Drucker
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into
results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of
yesterday. Peter F. Drucker
Above all, effective executives treat change as an
opportunity rather than a threat. They systematically look at changes,
inside and outside the corporation, and ask, “How can we exploit this
change as an opportunity for our enterprise?”. Peter F. Drucker
What we need is a way to identify the areas of
effectiveness (of possible significant results), and a method for
concentrating on them. Peter F. Drucker
What is the manager’s job? It is to direct the resources
and the efforts of the business toward opportunities for economically
significant results. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives put their best people on opportunities rather than on problems. Peter F. Drucker
Every analysis of actual allocation of resources and
efforts in business that I have ever seen or made showed clearly that
the bulk of time, work, attention, and money first goes to problems
rather than to opportunities, and, secondly, to areas where even
extraordinarily successful performance will have minimal impact on
results. Peter F. Drucker
An executive who makes many decisions is both lazy and ineffectual. Peter F. Drucker
Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. Peter F. Drucker
I have never encountered an executive who remains effective while tackling more than two tasks at a time. Peter F. Drucker
Problem solving, however necessary, does not produce
results. It prevents damage. Exploiting opportunities produces results.
Peter F. Drucker
The focus on contribution is the key to effectiveness. Peter F. Drucker
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in
detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must
direct himself toward performance and contribution, that is, toward
effectiveness. Peter F. Drucker
The focus on contribution by itself supplies the four
basic requirements of effective human relations: communications;
teamwork; self-development; and development of others. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. Peter F. Drucker
There seems to be little correlation between a man’s
effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective. Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives do not race. They set an easy pace but keep going steadily. Peter F. Drucker
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job. Peter F. Drucker
To be effective every knowledge worker, and especially
every executive, therefore needs to be able to dispose of time in fairly
large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal
will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of
hours. Peter F. Drucker
Without an action plan, the executive becomes a prisoner
of events. And without check-ins to reexamine the plan as events unfold,
the executive has no way of knowing which events really matter and
which are only noise. Peter F. Drucker
The people who get nothing done often work a great deal
harder. In the first place, they underestimate the time for any one
task. They always expect that everything will go right. Yet, as every
executive knows, nothing ever goes right. The unexpected always
happens—the unexpected is indeed the only thing one can confidently
expect. Peter F. Drucker
“Is this still worth doing?” And if it isn’t, he gets rid
of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done
with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own
job and in the performance of his organization. Peter F. Drucker
If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration. Peter F. Drucker
A boss loves power; a leader loves people. Amit Kalantri
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others,
but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on
with their jobs. Robert Townsend
A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. M. D. Arnold
There is a difference between being a leader and being a
boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a
leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. Klaus
Balkenhol
I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying
attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we
get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it
results in bad government and politics. Barack Obama
I don’t think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. Patricia Ireland
A boss says “you do it”, a leader says “Let’s do it”. Amit Kalantri
Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing. Warren Bennis
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. Theodore Roosevelt
Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Warren Bennis
You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside. Stan Slap
It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build. Nelson Mandela
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and
thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be
closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are
arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Nelson Mandela
The cynics may be the loudest voices – but I promise you, they will accomplish the least. Barack Obama
Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance.
Likable leaders don’t act as though they’re better than you because
they don’t think that they’re better than you. Rather than being a
source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them
additional accountability for serving those who follow them. Travis
Bradberry
Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving
manner. Self-serving kindness is thin – people can see right through it
when a kind leader has an agenda. Travis Bradberry
If you want to be a leader whom people follow with
absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and
curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a
time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to
see what anyone is truly capable of. Travis Bradberry
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. Warren Bennis
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. Warren Bennis
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. Steven R. Covey
Good leaders see more in people than people see in themselves. Mark Sanborn
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan. Jason Fried
That one can truly manage other people is by no means
adequately proven. But one can always manage one’s self. Indeed,
executives who do not manage themselves for effectiveness cannot
possibly expect to manage their associates and subordinates. Management
is largely by example. Peter F. Drucker
Disagreement, especially if forced to be reasoned,
thought through, documented, is the most effective stimulus we know.
Peter F. Drucker
The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. Pete Hoekstra
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. Thomas Friedman
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t. Jack Ma (alibaba.com)
It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you
through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not
explicate. Robert Greene
Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations. John Seaman Garns
Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them. Warren Bennis
Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. Harold S. Geneen
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. John Wooden
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
True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in
ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they
are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. Maya Angelou
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let
them see. Henry David Thoreau
It’s impossible to engage people when you’re not engaged
yourself, and if you’re not engaged then why should they be. Gordon
Tredgold
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
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins
To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. Pat Riley
True leaders don’t give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. Amit Kalantri
A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving. Debasish Mridha
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. Robert E. Lee
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you. Lao Tzu
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. Roy T. Bennett
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. Warren Bennis
Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. Patrick Lencioni
If people believe you have a plan, that you know where you are going, they will follow you instinctively. Robert Greene
True leaders actually do very little leading. Instead,
they create and maintain a framework that allows others to lead, create,
and grow. Neil Strauss
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t
fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe
have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but
only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.
Rachel Maddow
Leaders must always put their people before themselves.
If you do that, your business will take care of itself. Sam Walton
(Walmart)
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. James MacGregor Burns
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,
never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not
to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’
They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept
responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit. This is
what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. Peter F.
Drucker
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. Noam Chomsky
A leader takes people where they would never go on their own. Hans Finzel
A man can only lead when others accept him as their
leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him.
All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no
one will listen to them. Brandon Sanderson
One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Roy T. Bennett
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that
goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his
heart. Nelson Mandela
In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t
necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most
fearless heretic behind it. Seth Godin
I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself
having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do
things for them, to have answers. Tupac Shakur
Leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift
people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of
objectives worthy of their best efforts. John Gardner
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Kenneth Blanchard
