Leadership quotes
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"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."
"Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves."
"A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly."
"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
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"Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."
"Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title"
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."
"Walls turned sideways are bridges."
"When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry."
"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."
"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."
"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front."
"You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'."
