Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley A. McChrystal

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Scott Walker

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

Sun Tzu

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Michael Pollan

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Seth Godin

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Seth Godin

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

John P. Kotter

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John P. Kotter

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Max de Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Plato

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Lance Morrow

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Peter Drucker

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

John Wooden

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

Merlin Olsen

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Mary Kay Ash

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Ma Huateng

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

Leadership and the six returning starters will be strong points for us this season.

She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the past, who led by example. This year she was more vocal. As she matured she was more comfortable speaking out.

There are people who see us as the leadership in this city. They feel we have the integrity.

He's got to re-establish his leadership capability, and one of the ways he is doing that is by trying to show that he's hands-on in the recovery. He needs to send the signal that he is a hands-on manager to restore flagging confidence.

She does everything for us. She not only scores, she passes and rebounds. She our leader on and off the court.

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say: "I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.