The Best Leadership Quotes

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The Best Leadership Quotes

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." - Henry Ford

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." - Henry A.Kissinger

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs

"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them." - Aristotle Onassis

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren G.Bennis

"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." - Bernard Baruch

"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions." - Bo Bennett

"The more you push yourself to your limits you more you realise that your limits never existed" - Mark Wager

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." - Margaret Fuller

"Strong convictions precede great actions." - James Freeman Clarke

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren G.Bennis

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." - Ray Kroc

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority." - Tom Hopkins

"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent." - John H.Johnson

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" - Donald Trump

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry J.Kaiser

"You can either live your dreams or work for someone who is living theirs - you decide" - Mark Wager

"The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people." - Harvey S.Firestone

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E.Joseph Cossman

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves." - J.Paul Getty

"Leadership is not a title its an attitude" - Mark Wager

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." - W.Clement Stone

"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them." - Paul Hawken

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason." - J.P.Morgan

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther." - J.P.Morgan

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." - William James

"Strong convictions precede great actions. " - James Freeman Clarke

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way." John C. Maxwell

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining." - Barbara Sher

"A great asset for a leader to have is to know when to get out of people's way" - Mark Wager

"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself." - R.Buckminster Fuller

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset." - Harvey S.Firestone

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. " - E.Joseph Cossman

"What helps people, helps business." - Leo Burnett

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David Joseph Schwartz

"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. " - David Joseph Schwartz

"Your silence gives consent." - Plato

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act." - Barbara Sher

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference." - Nolan Bushnell

"You have to have your heart in the business and the busines in your heart." - An Wang

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?" - Donald Trump

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way." John C. Maxwell

"The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive." - Joe Batten

"I light my candle from their torches." - Robert Burton

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln

"As a leader if you are not influencing relationships then what else is there?" - Mark Wager

"The power of imagination makes us infinite." - John Muir

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

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