Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

Thomas Reid

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

Robert McKee

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Robert Menzies

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Robert Menzies

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Robert McNamara

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Robert Harris

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Robert Baden-Powell

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Sydney J. Harris

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Ray Kroc

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Thomas Jefferson

All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.

Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Rick Santorum

[Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life. ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.

Rick Perry

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership, the specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

Tony Robbins

We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement.

Tony Robbins

The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available

Tony Robbins

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.

Tony Robbins

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Tony Blair

Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.

Simon Sinek

Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.

Simon Sinek

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.

Simon Sinek

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Simon Sinek

For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.

Simon Sinek

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.

Simon Mainwaring

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

Rick Riordan

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

Richard Branson

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.