Leadership Quotes - Page 38

• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Anniversary

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

  Eric Jensen

  Thinking, Mind, Emotion

  Eric Jensen (1998). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

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• What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

  Daniel Goleman

  Character, Emotional, Skills

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• Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.

  Donald Trump

  Business, People, Littles

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• Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Believe, Cutting

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.13, Thomas Nelson

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• If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

  Bear Bryant

  Basketball, Attitude, Believe

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• As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Jobs, Good Job, Employee

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• When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Inspire, Honey

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.273, Wildside Press LLC

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• Less isn't more; just enough is more.

  Milton Glaser

  Inspiration, Enough

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• If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

  Dennis Roch

  Humorous, Silly, Communication

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• Purpose is what gives life meaning.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Purpose

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• One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Ideas, People

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.22, Harvard Business Press

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• A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Perseverance, Practice, Principles

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Important, Looks

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• Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Integrity

  Davy Crockett (1987). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press

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• All you need to do is know who you are.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Needs, Knows, Who You Are

  "Oprah Tells Howard Grads Not to Be 'Slaves' to 'Selling Out,' Addresses Black Youth" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. May 13, 2007.

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Sports, Baseball, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Voice, Lists, I Can

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• I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

  Lefty Gomez

  Baseball, Years, Pitching

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• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Believe, Thinking, Discrepancies Between

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• If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

  Dee Hock

  Tyranny, Subordinates, Knows

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• Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Responsibility

  "Nineteen Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership". Book by Edgar F. Puryear Jr., p. 289, 1971.

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nice, Dirty, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Sacrifice, Self

  "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, (p. 111), 1951.

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