"LEADERSHIP QUOTES"
"A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there."
David R. Gergen
"All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothingwill distract them from achieving their aims."
Lou Holtz
"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet."
Henry Mintzberg
"There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."
Thomas Edison
"Leadership is about magnetic communication. Leaders have a way of communicating that draws people toward the vision, and the horizon."
Doug Firebaugh
"I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it."
Walt Disney
"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."
Peter Drucker
"To move people toward excellence, begin to expect excellence and then communicate that."
Ron Clark
"When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up feeling better."
Joe Torres
"Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership."
John Maxwell
"A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard."
Mahatma Gandhi
"What you cannot enforce, do not command."
Sophocles
"The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different."
Rick Pitino
"Organizations exist only for one purpose: to help people reach ends together that they couldn't achieve individually."
Robert H. Waterman
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."
John Le Care
"My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too."
Jack Welch
"People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument."
Will Rogers
"A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you arewrong - that's healthy."
Robert Townsend
"The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
"The secret of my success is a two-word answer: Know people."
Harvey S. Firestone
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