Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vernon Jordan

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Stephen Covey

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

Stephen Covey

Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.

Stephen Covey

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Stephen Covey

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Stephen Covey

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Vanna Bonta

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Vanna Bonta

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Vanna Bonta

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Vaclav Havel

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Sophocles

What you can't enforce, do not command.

Steve Squyres

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

Stephen King

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stedman Graham

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Stedman Graham

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.

Stanley Milgram

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..

Rosalynn Carter

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.

Ron Fournier

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Rollo May

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

Tom Peters

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Tom Peters

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Tom Peters

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

Tom Peters

Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

Tom Peters

It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer.

Tom Peters

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

Tom Peters

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Robbins

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Lantos

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Landry

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.