leadership quotations

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.- John F. Kennedy

If the rate of change on the

outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the

end is near.- Jack Welch

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it

was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major

anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is

the essence of leadership.- John Kenneth Galbraith

Not everything that is faced can be changed.But nothing can be changed until it is faced.- James Baldwin

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the

past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.-Lawrence Miller

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a

culture of creative dissatisfaction.

- Lawrence Miller

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.- Picasso

Ask with urgency and passion.

- Arthur James Balfour

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

- Jim Rohn

The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.- Marcel Proust

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before

they become obvious.- John Scully

Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he

serves.- Unknown

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

- Walter Lippman

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated.- Dag Hammarskjoeld

He who has great power should use it lightly.

- Seneca

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.- David McNally

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them

greatly, and they will show themselves great.

- Ralph W. Emerson

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so

much.- Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning; keeping

together is progress; working together is

success.- Henry Ford

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.- Michael Jordan

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.- Robert Yates

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.- Albert Einstein

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.- Marshall McLuhan

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can

get on with creating the future.- James Bertrand

There is a way to do it better--find it.

- Thomas Edison

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.- General Colin Powell

Some men look at things the way they are and ask why?I dream of things that are not

and ask why not?- Mark Twain

To the person who does not know where he wants to go

there is no favourable wind.- Seneca

Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not

caused by the absence of things but the absence of

vision.- Anonymous

We will either find a way or make one.

- Hannibal

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.- Sigmund Freud

A leader is a dealer in hope.- Napoleon Bonaparte

We must become the change we want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming

attractions- Albert Einstein

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.- Andrew Carnegie

Accept the fact that we have to

treat almost anybody as a

volunteer- Peter Drucker

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to

apologise than it is to get permission.

- Admiral Grace Hopper

I never worry about action, only inaction.- Winston Churchill

Most of what we call

management consists of

making it difficult for

people to get their jobs

done- Peter Drucker

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity- George Patton

Hell, there are no rules here -

we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in

moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.- Dick Nicolose

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go

back to its old dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Doing the same thing over and

over, yet expecting

different results, is the

definition of crazy.- Unknown

A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.- George Patton

The secret to getting ahead is getting

started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and

then starting on the first one.- Mark Twain

Celebrate what you want to see

more of.- Tom Peters

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

- Winston Churchill

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.- David Livingstone

Champions keep playing until they get

it right.- Billie Jean King

Many of life's failures are people

who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up- Thomas Edison

I know the price of

success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.- Frank Lloyd Wright

The final test of a leader is that he

leaves behind him in other men, the

conviction and the will to carry on.

- Walter Lippmann

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.- Thomas Fuller

The soft stuff is always

harder than the hard stuff.

- Roger Enrico

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.- John Foster Dulles