"He who has great power should use it lightly."— Seneca
"A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision" - Alan Sugar
"Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally" - Alan Sugar
"At best, only 2-3% of today’s established players are eagerly, earnestly, rigorously looking for the next wave in their own industry. They will pay a heavy price for this" - Adrian Slywotzky
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma" - Alan Sugar
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing" -Albert Schweitzer
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up 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
"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it" -Aung San Suu Kyi
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else." - Alan Sugar
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength" - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time" -Alexander Smith
"There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me." -Alan Sugar
"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows" - Alexandra Stoddard
"Men fail through a lack of purpose rather than lack of talent" - Billy Sunday
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try" - Beverly Sills
"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want" - Dan Stanford
"Today's business leader cannot justify his existence by profit statements alone. He must also render service to his local, national and world community" - Dorothy Shaver
"No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man" -Ernest Shackleton
"The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them" - Edgar Schein
"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions" - George Bernard Shaw
"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do" - Gerry Sikorski
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw
"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy" - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations" - George Bernard Shaw
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn" - Gloria Steinem
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress in the world depends on the unreasonable man" - George Bernard Shaw
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn" - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious" - John Scully
"The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment" - John Sculley
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible" - Jonathan Swift
"I view models and prototypes as the battleground for thoughts and behaviours" - Michael Schrage
"Real commitment is rare ... 90% of the time what passes for commitment is compliance" - Peter Senge
"Anything worth doing, is worth doing now." - Ralph Stayer
"Change the rules before somebody else does" - Ralph Seferian
"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives" - Robert South
"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place" - Robert Schumann
"Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation" - Roger Staubach
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you" - Ralph W. Sockman
"You don't just stumble into your future, you create your own future" -Roger Smith
"Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war" -Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca
"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be" - Socrates
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers" -Seneca
"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles
"In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design" - Thomas Stewart
"Networks irrevocably subvert managerial authority" - Thomas Stewart
“Where success comes before work is a dictionary" - Vidal Sassoon
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them" - William Shakespeare
"To thine ownself be true" - William Shakespeare
"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"—Lao-Tsu
"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."— Harry Truman
"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading" -Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"— Lao-Tse
"Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot" - Alexis De Tocqueville
"If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production" - Alvin Tofler
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction" - Alvin Toffler
"As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG" - Donald Trump
"Instead of waiting for someone to take you under his wing, go out and find a wing to climb under" - David Thomas
"In every triumph there's a lot of try" - Frank Tyger
"The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas" - Fons Trompenaars
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you" - Frank Tyger
"I never did give anybody hell, I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell" - Harry S Truman
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours" - Henry David Thoreau
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ... now put foundations under them" - Henry David Thoreau
"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it" - Harry S. Truman
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change: we change" - Henry David Thoreau
"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" - Lao-Tzu
"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots" - Jean Toomer
"A Leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done ... they will say "We did it ourselves"" - Lao-Tzu
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy
"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say that it happened naturally." - Lao Tse
"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier" - Mother Theresa
"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction" - Margaret Thatcher
"Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation" - Mark Twain
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug" - Mark Twain
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" - Mark Twain
"The secret of 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
"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot" - Margaret Thatcher
"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose" - Margaret Thatcher
"Life's greatest gift is natural talent" - P. K. Thomajan
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfil his destiny." - Paul Tillich
"Out of the frying pan into the fire" - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
"Big companies are small companies that succeeded" - Robert Townsend
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu
"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before his battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand" - Sun Tzu
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep" - Talleyrand
"Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader" - Tacitus
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word" - William Makepeace Thackeray
"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature" -Zeno
"The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less" - Zeno
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals" - Zig Ziglar
"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue" - Xenocrates
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation" - Xenophon
"A beginner's mind leads you where you need to go" - Zen Anonymous
"A thousand mile journey begins with one step" - Zen saying
"Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship" - Zeuxis
"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."— Gary Wills
"Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy."— Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)
"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with personal values."— Mike Vance
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."— Jack Welch
"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing" - Alexander Woollcott
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan
"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them and to let them know that you trust them" - Booker T. Washington
"Inspired leaders move a business beyond problems into opportunities" -Dr. Abraham Zaleznik
"Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full. Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!" - Dr James S Vuocolo
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power" - Daniel Webster
"Wise people learn when they can. Fools learn when they must" - Duke of Wellington
"None think the great unhappy but the great" - Edward Young
"There are two ways of speading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" - Edith Wharton
"The only safe ship in a storm is leadership" - Faye Wattleton
"Conduct is more convincing than language" - John Woolman
"If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by" - Jack Welch
"Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking." - Jack Welch
"Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy" - Luc De Vauvenargues
"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything" - Malcolm X
"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today" - Malcolm X
"I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action." -Malcolm X
"It's not what you say, but how you say it!" - Mae West
"Stumbling is not falling" - Malcolm X
"The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one" - Max Weber
"There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time." " - Malcolm X
"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success" -Oscar Wilde
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment" - Oprah Winfrey
"People make things happen. All the rest is just window dressing" - Oprah Winfrey
"Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority" - Oscar Wilde
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less" -Rick Warren
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" - Thomas Watson
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J Watson
"Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is the essence of leadership." - Theodore H White
"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything" - Unknown
"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have, is a necessary ingredient of a career" - Unknown
"Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match" -Unknown
"Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves" - Unknown
"Don't use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice" - Unknown
"Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it" - Unknown
"If you have the ability to reach, the top is always vacant." - Unknown
"It is better to be defeated with integrity, than to win without it" -Unknown
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings" - Unknown
"No one achieves their dream without a goal real enough to taste, a reason strong enough to move mountains, a strategy as specific as a road map, and a willingness to take action no matter what the circumstances" -Unknown
"Take what you learn and make a difference with it" - Unknown
"The greatest pleasure in life is being able to do what someone else told you you'd fail at. I'm a strong enough person to accept failure, but I'm not strong enough to handle not trying." - Unknown
"The words we attach to our experiences, become our experience" -Unknown
"There is plenty of room at the top - but no place to sit down" - Unknown
"To one that is afraid, all seems dim" - Unknown
"We are the only ones who have the power to accomplish what we set out to do." - Unknown
"Change everything, except your loves" - Voltaire
"They can because they think they can " - Virgil
