More Great Leadership Quotes

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• Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.
  Anon
• Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his image.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The best way to change your behaviour is to change your point of view.
  Sigmund Freud
• The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
  Euripides
• It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
  Samuel Johnson
• Nothing in the world is good or bad but thinking makes it so.
  William Shakespeare
• Every great man is always being helped by everybody: for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
  John Ruskin
• In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Management by objectives works if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't
  Peter P Drucker
• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the co-operation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the frail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
  Alexander Graham Bell
• I praise loudly. I blame softly.
  Catherine The Great
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
  Niccolo Machiavelli
• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say "well done'.
  John Ashcroft
• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
  Samuel Johnson
• We are not upset by things but rather the view we take of them
  Epictetus
• And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
  The Bible
• That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
  Lord Erskine
• Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualifies beneath a rough exterior.
  Juvenal
• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
  Theodore Roosevelt
• The only real equality is in the cemetery.
  German Proverb
• If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
  Thomas Fuller
• There's nobody better than me and I'm better than nobody else. That's how I've always looked at it.
  Lord Gormley
• Leadership is the priceless gift that you earn from the people who work for you. I have to earn the right to that gift and have to continuously re-earn that right.
  Sir John Harvey-Jones
• The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Basically I try to jolly things along. After all, the problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
  Sir John Harvey-Jones
• The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like asking "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
  Henry Ford
• Leaders must be seen to be up front, up to date, up to their job and up early in the morning.
  Lord Sieff
• They are able because they think they are able.
  Virgil
• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders, there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.
  Prof Warren Bennis
• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
  Henry Ward Beecher
• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
  James Robinson
• We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover than by those which are given to us by others.
  Blaise Pascal
• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
  Samuel Johnson
• I've spent 30 years going around factories. When you know something's wrong, nine times out of ten it's the management - in truth, because people aren't being led right. And bad leaders invariably blame the people.
  Sir John Harvey-Jones
• When J look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
  Sir Winston Churchill
• He that has learned to obey will know how to command.
  Solon
• I can live for two months on a good compliment
  Mark Twain
• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
  Elbert Green Hubbard
• He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
  Samuel Butler
• At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance, and then hastily pains the bullseye around the spot where it lands.
  Warren Buffet
• There is an English proverb that says "there are no bad students, only bad teachers'. I believe it also applies to a company. There are no bad employees, only bad managers.
  T S Un
• A burnt child dreads the fire.
  English Proverb
• Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
  Dwight D Eisenhower
• When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could handy stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
  Mark Twain
• People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength: and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
  Leo XIII
• Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
  Arthur E Morgan
• When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity.
  Dale Carnegie
• It is the responsibility of the leadership and the management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment
  Sir John Harvey-Jones
• Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
  Will Rogers
• Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould.
  Thomas Fuller
• A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
  William James
• There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
  Joseph Addison
• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
  James Matthew Barrie
• The function which distinguishes the manager above all others is his educational one. The one contribution he is uniquely expected to make is to give others vision and ability to perform. It is vision and moral responsibility that, in the last analysis, define the manager.
  Peter F Drucker

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