"How Do Business Leaders Improve?"
"Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an 'I' in 'team.' It is the same 'I' that appears three times in 'responsibility.'"
Amber Harding
"Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure."
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
"The Law of Win/Win says, 'Let's not do it your way or my way; let's do it the best way.'"
Greg Anderson
"Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it."
Jack Nichols
"You have to communicate what you're doing. If people don't know what's going on, they'll think nothing's going on."
Ron L. Sargent, Chairman and CEO, Staples, Inc.
"For me, there is a standard that ranks above winning. I would never allow the scoreboard to be the judge of whether I had achieved success."
Coach John Wooden
"Anxiety about the future will never change the outcome of it."
Written in 2010 by Eddie Harris Jr. --- Ohio
"The best leader, however, is one who 'leads like the baby'. The baby, though apparently depending on everyone, is the king of the household."
Swami Vivekananda --- Submitted by N.Jambunathan Iyer --- India
"Unmanaged leadership struggles destroy the moral of the organization and cause lack of stability."
Written in 2011 by Seville Seane --- South Africa
"Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together."
Tony Dungy --- Submitted by Jambunathan Iyer --- India
"Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment."
Bobby Hull
"A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain."
Max DePree
"The sovereignty of success emulates first from the willingness to serve diligently, for a long duration, before being served diligently. It fosters the humility for juniors due to possessing the experience with regards to the challenges of being at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy."
Written in 2011 by Seville Seane --- South Africa
"The market of every business is like a war zone. Never try to end the war because it is like closing your market and losing your business. Just try to win every battle."
Written in 2011 by Gigs Gasper --- Philippines
"If an eagle is not flying, what would it be doing? Maybe soaring? If it's neither flying nor soaring, what would it be doing? Probably hibernating - to renew its strength. If it's not doing any of these three? Then it's impersonating - it's not an eagle. We must be true to our KIND!"
Written in 2011 by Segun Ikuemonisan (P. Shegz) --- Nigeria
"Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it. There will come a time, in many instances, when the person who hates you most, the person who has misused you most, the person who has gossiped about you most, the person who has spread false rumors about you most, there will come a time when you will have an opportunity to defeat that person. It might be in terms of a recommendation for a job; it might be in terms of helping that person to make some move in life. That's the time you must do it. That is the meaning of love. In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. It's not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy 'out' for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts."
Suze Orman
"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives."
Brian Tracy
"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
Michael Dell
"Anytime you break a moral principal, you create a small crack in the foundation of your integrity. And when times get tough, it becomes harder to act with integrity, not easier. Character isn't created in a crisis; it only comes to light."
John Maxwell
"Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world."
Sergey Brin
"It takes courage to admit that you have been doing something wrong, to admit that you have something to learn, that there is a better way."
W. Edwards Deming
"We fail to realize that mastery is not about perfection. It's about a process, a journey. The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives."
George Leonard --- Submitted by George Wachirah --- Kenya
"Some days, it's not about passion and courage. It's not about heroism and drama. It's not about slaying dragons or conjuring exotic visions... Some days, it's simply about the delicious act of doing simple things, simply."
Jack Ricchiuto --- Submitted by George Wachirah --- Kenya
"The unity of those associated by mere authority, power, or greed is ultimately weak and unstable. In contrast, the unity of those united by the heart - by bonds of respect, honesty, and compassion - is strong and unshakable."
Taro Gold --- Submitted by George Wachirah --- Kenya