Successful Leaders Quotes - Page 2

• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• Don't take too much advice.

  Ben Silbermann

  Advice, Entrepreneur, Levers

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• A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• High expectations are the key to everything.

  Sam Walton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Sam Walton Is Dead At 74; the Founder Of Wal-Mart Stores" by Thomas C. Hayes, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1992.

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• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

  Erskine Bowles

  Leadership, Successful, Keys

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• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Dream

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• Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Successful, Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

  Blake Roney

  Running, Successful, Long

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• The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Believe, Successful

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• The unconscious mind governs our decision-making, and much of our communications. It's imperative, if you want to be a successful leader, to become aware of these key human actions.

  Nick Morgan

  Communication, Successful, Keys

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

  Avery Johnson

  Communication, Character, Successful

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• One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, Successful, Night

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.130, Delacorte Press

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• All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Successful, Errors

  John C. Maxwell (1995). “Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.

  David Livermore

  Successful, Thinking, Impact

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Successful, People, Leader

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• Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
  took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.

  Larry Osborne

  Successful, Keys, Decision

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• The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right.

  Henry Ford

  Successful, Greatness, Thinking

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• The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Successful, Common Purpose, Leader

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• And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Successful, Leader

  "Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett".

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• When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Successful, Years

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• Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.

  Diane Dreher

  Leadership, Time, Successful

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• COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

  John C. Maxwell

  Letting Go, Successful, Leader

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Oct 06, 2014

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