Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Cash

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

John Ralston Saul

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

Peter Drucker

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Peter Drucker

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Peter Drucker

Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Peter Drucker

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Peter Drucker

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fury snorted. "You're the leader, Vane. Lead.

Terry Semel

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

John Wooden

The true leader isn't really looking for leadership. He's trying to set an example and be in the proper way to get the most productive results and don't realize it. When the followers get something done, if the leader has been what he should, they'll feel like they did it, not him. That's the way it should be.

John Wooden

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.

John Wooden

Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.

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.

John Wooden

What a leader learns after you've learned it all counts most of all.

John Wooden

Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

John Wooden

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

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.

Michael Grant

Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are.

Michael Josephson

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

Michael J. Fox

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Michael Jordan

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

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 Dell

We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

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.

Michael Ramsey

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

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.