Leadership Quotes - Page 8

• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Lying, Responsibility

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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  Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Morning

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Educational, Learning

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Basketball, Successful

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail.

  Lou Holtz

  Success, Trust, Work

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• People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
  know the request is coming from a caring heart

  Ken Blanchard

  Heart, Caring, People

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• The price of greatness is responsibility.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.292, A&C Black

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• The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Pride, Men

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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Power, Past, People

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• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Differences, People, Boss

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Business, Storm, Safe

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Business

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
  I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
  To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them

  Jack Welch

  Helping Others, People, Empowering Others

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• Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Discipline, Self Motivation

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 27, 2016

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• Leaders grow; they are not made.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Made, Grows

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

  Tom Peters

  Teamwork, Kids, Thinking

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• The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Organization, Impact, People

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• Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
  to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

  John McCain

  Honesty, Integrity, Humility

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• A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

  John W. Gardner

  Hope, Teaching, Inspiration

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Discipline, Classroom

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Andre Maurois

  Business, Quality, Important

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• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Confidence, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Motivation, Philosophical, Careers

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