“There go my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
– Ghandi
“After all is said and done, More is said than done!”
– Vince Lombardi
“Every executive has to recognize sooner or later that he himself cannot do everything that needs to be done.”
– Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ”
– Ralph Nader
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any leader, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.”
– George W. Bush
“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with great enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Want more? Take a look at Leadership Quotes Vol. I.
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“What I do best is share my enthusiasm.”
– Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes 1919-1990 American Publisher, businessman
“When you’re comfortable in your own skin, you can do anything. You’re not worried about what somebody else has or what you don’t have. You like you. Not in a braggadocio way. You just like you.”
– Jack Welch, former CEO, GE
“If we’re to afraid to leap, we can’t expect to fly.”
– Anne Sweeney, co-chairman Disney Media Networks and President Disney ABC TV Group
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
“The two things that people want more than sex or money are recognition and praise.”
– Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
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