Leadership Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

  James C. Collins

  Motivation, Organization, Creative

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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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• 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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• Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Jobs, Motivation

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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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• The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Courage, Inspiration, Opportunity

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• History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

  John F. Kennedy

  Acceptance, Historical, Excuse

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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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• Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Loneliness, History, Acting

  Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1977). “Marcos Speaks: Quotations from the Man who Leads the Democratic Revolution in the Philippines”

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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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• Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would not get done as well if they were not there, when they succeed they take no credit. And, because they take no credit, credit never leaves them.

  Laozi

  Done, Deeds, Littles

  "Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success" by Jim Clemmer, (p. 137), 1999.

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• What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

  Wendell Phillips

  Inspirational, Life, Sports

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

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• People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

  Warren G. Bennis

  Skills, People, Support

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• Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Needs, Firsts, Needs Of Others

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• The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Focus, Deployment

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• 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

  Past, People, Vision

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
  and that's not training them and keeping them

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny, Learning, Knowledge

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