If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.
Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.
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