Leadership Quotes

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way you face and overcome challenges of life. Use everything in your advantage.

~ Amit Ray

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

~ Warren G. Bennis

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.

~ Tom Northup

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

~ J. Oswald Sanders

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

~ J. Oswald Sanders

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

~ Paul Orfalea

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

~ Oliver Demille

Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.

~ Laura Weakley

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

~ John Christopher

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

~ Ken Kesey

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home. Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family.

~ David J. Vaughan

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

~ Hans Finzel

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty

~ Grace Murray Hopper

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

~ Jack Welch

So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.

~ Julien Smith

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

~ Sun Tzu

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

~ John Buchan

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

~ Hyman George Rickover

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth.

~ John Paul Warren

[Nicodemus] 'Magistra DeVega, can I ask for your help?'[DeVega] 'You can ask,' she said with her usual calmness, 'but the clerics haven't developed a cure for death by idiotic leadership.

~ Blake Charlton

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.

~ Orji Uzor Kalu

live as temporal, serve as eternal

~ John Paul Warren

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.

~ Suzy Kassem

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

~ Orrin Woodward

Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

~ Amit Ray

You are blessed, You are great. You are not alone. You are powerful.

~ Amit Ray

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs.

~ Amit Ray

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

~ Marco Pierre White

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

~ Warren G. Bennis

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

~ Jack Weatherford

People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

~ Howard Schultz

The essential difference with Builders is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are therefore so passionately engaged, they rise above the personality baggage that would otherwise hold them down. Whatever they are doing has so much meaning to them that the cause itself provides charisma and they plug into it as if it was electrical current.

~ Jerry Porras

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior.- Hun, A. T.

~ Robert Lynn Asprin

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

~ Warren G. Bennis

The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz.

~ John Grisham

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it, for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self, will honor, respect and lasting success be found.

~ Stevenson Willis

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

~ Carlos Wallace

Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision and inner strength.

~ Amit Ray