"LEADERSHIP QUOTES"
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, butonly to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst."
Rachel Maddow
"I teach my employees, on a daily basis, that it's important to remain in control of your feelings regardless of the situation. Life happens and sometimes we are helpless to do anything about it. We must allow ourselves theopportunity to sit back and evaluate the situation before we react. The biggest mistake we can make would be to rush to judgment and live with regret!"
Copyright © 2011 Jon Hawks
"Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only byattracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds."
Colin Powell
"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
Winston Churchill
"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."
Jeff Bezos
"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 andthen 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
"Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you."
John Wooden
"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention."
Tom Peters
"I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."
Steve Case
"The signs of outstanding leadership are found among the followers."
Max DePree
"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."
Henry George
"Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end."
Bill Gates
"Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character.There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character."
Vince Lombardi
"If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy."
Miyamoto Mursashi
"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."
Ray Kroc
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
Thomas J. Watson
"If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need. Hire good people, and leave them alone."
William L. McKnight
"The most complicated problems often have the simplest solution."
Written in 2011 by Jeffrey Richman --- North Carolina
"There are no holes in transparency!"
Written in 2010 by Gigs Gasper --- Philippines
You can never find fault in a transparent person because everything has already been laid on the table.
"I look at you and I see potential! I look at you and I see a successful and happy future! I look at you and I see someone that is complicated! I look at you and I a loving person that is always concerned for others!I look at you and I see my friend... So watch how you are acting, because I am looking at you!"
Copyright © 2011 Jon Hawks
I was giving an example to my crew of how potential customers may view them when entering our location and how important our attitudes are! How we carry ourselves is the key to our future survival and isdependent on how we are acting at all times!
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