There are no office hours for leaders.
- Cardinal J. Gibbons
The role of leadership is to transform the complex
situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
- Carlos Ghosn
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to
offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Those who let things happen usually lose to those
who make things happen.
- Dave Weinbaum
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing
how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
- David Star Jordan
Control is not leadership; management is not
leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek
to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time in
leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles,
motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading
those with authority over you and 15 percent leading
your peers.
- Dee Hock
The important thing is this: to be able to give up
in any given moment all that we are for what we can
become.
- DeSeaux
There exist limitless opportunities in every industry.
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a
frontier.
- Charles F. Kettering
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to
communicate something people want.
- Dianne Feinstein
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because
it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
- Diogenes of Sinope
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to
dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
then, you are an excellent leader.
- Dolly Parton
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the
courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion
to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out
to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his
actions and the integrity of his intent.
- Douglas MacArthur
Leadership is an action, not a position.
- Donald McGannon
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When people talk, listen completely.
- Ernest Hemmingway
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
- Estée Lauder
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
- Faye Wattleton
Where the is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver