"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."—General Douglas MacArthur
"All Leadership is influence."— John C. Maxwell
"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
"The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men" - Miyamoto Musashi
"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around."— Patrick Lencioni
"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence."— General Montgomery
"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."— Wangari Maathai
"A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management." -Akio Morita
"Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own" - Anne Mulcahy
"I've got to follow them, I'm their leader" - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
"Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative." - Akio Morita
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself" -Andre Malraux
"The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake." - Akio Morita
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force." -Andre Maurois
"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie" - Ann Landers
"Things may come to those who wait, but only what's left behind by those that hustle." - Abraham Lincoln
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it" - Abraham Lincoln
"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players" - Blaine Lee
"The leader who exercises power with honour will work from the inside out, starting with himself" - Blaine Lee
"Big shots are little shots who kept shooting" - Christopher Morley
"Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow" - Deng Ming-Dao
"Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best" - David O. McKay
"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra...Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?" - Dimitri Mitropolous
"Leadership is action, not position" - Donald McGannon
"There comes a time when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear" - David Mahoney
"When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another" - Edward Lorenz
"The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it" - Felix Morley
"Man's rank is his power to uplift" - George MacDonald
"Morale is a state of mind ... it is steadfastness and courage and hope ... it is confidence and zeal and loyalty ... it is staying power, the spirit which endures to the end – the will to win " - George C Marshall
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men - the other 999 follow women." -Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read " - Groucho Marx
"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it" - Giuseppe Mazzini
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail " - Harold R. McAlindon
"Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does." - Harvey Mackay
"Ideas without action are worthless" - Harvey Mackay
"It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow." - Harvey Mackay
"Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense" - Henry Mintzberg
"People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be." -Harvey Mackay
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward through the night" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"All leadership is influence" - John Maxwell
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them" - John Maxwell
"Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others" - John Maxwell
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought" - John Stuart Mill
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning" - James Russell Lowell
"Progress consists largely of learning to apply laws and truths that have always existed" - John Allan May
"The first step to leadership is servanthood" - John Maxwell
"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails" - John Maxwell
"Nothing is so practical as a good theory" - Kurt Lewin
"You can only lead others where you yourself are willing to go" - Lachlan McLean
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all" - Michelangelo
"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change" - Mignon McLaughlin
"She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it" -Mary's Almanac
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution" - Niccolo Machiavelli
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living" - Nelson Mandela
"He that would govern others first should be the master of himself" - Philip Massinger
"Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it" - Philip Larkin
"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves” - Peter McArthur
"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul Meyer
"The Nobel Peace Prize ... is an instrument with which to fight for peace, for justice, for the rights of those who suffer the abysmal economical, social, cultural and political inequalities" - Rigoberta Menchú
"Getting ahead in a difficult position requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." - Sophia Loren
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night ... wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes ..." - T.E. Lawrence
"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy" - Ursula LeGuin
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards" - Vernon Sanders Law
"Leaders are not born; they are made. And, they are made just like anything else - through hard work. And that is the price we'll have to pay to achieve any goal" - Vince Lombardi
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour" - Vince Lombardi
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on" - Walter Lippman
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation where common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully" -Walter Lippman
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" - Anais Nin
"Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself" - Blaise Pascal
"An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general" - Chinese Proverb
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today" - Cherokee proverb
"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes" - Chinese proverb
"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever" - Chinese proverb
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the really great man is the man who makes every man feel great" - Chinese Proverb
"Those who seek power for personal ends eventually run afoul of popular opinion" - Chinese Proverb
"If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain" - Dolly Parton
"Talent … is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters, and rebels" - David Ogilivy
"You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to ... try to find something better to do" - David Packard
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself" -Friedrich Nietzsche
"What is good? Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man" - Friedrich W. Nietzsche
"Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader" - General George S. Patton Jr.
"Coaching isn't an addition to a leader's job, it's an integral part of it" -George S Odiorne
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results" - George S Patton
"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them." - General Colin Powell
"Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles" - George S. Patton
"You must be single-minded. Drive for one thing on which you have decided" - George S. Patton
"Often a dash of judgement is better than a flash of genius" - Howard W. Newton
"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." - H. Ross Perot
"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." - H Ross Perot
"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work" - John G. Pollard
"Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows " - James McNerney
"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it" - John Naisbitt
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks" - Jack Penn
"The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding the present" - John Naisbitt
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare" - Japanese proverb
"In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence" - Laurence J. Peter
"Knowledge flows along existing pathways in organisations. If we want to understand how to improve the flow of knowledge, we need to understand those pathways." - Larry Prusak
"Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously" - Michael Porter
"The best test of a man is authority" - Montenegran Proverb
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - Max De Pree
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader" - Max De Pree
"Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy" - Nicholas Negroponte
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism" - Norman Vincent Peale
"The man who moved a mountain is the one who started taking away the small stones" - Old Chinese Proverb
"Thy destiny is only that of a man, but thy aspirations may be those of a god" - Ovid
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso
"The life which is unexamined is not worth living" - Plato
"To find fault is easy: to do better may be difficult" - Plutarch
"Where there is no vision the people perish" - Proverbs 29:18
"Eagles don't flock" - Ross Perot
"Forcefulness in the character of a chief executive is an invaluable quality" - Robert K. Patterson
"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures" - Tom Peters
"Great design = WOW! + GRACE" - Tom Peters
"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade" - Tom Peters
"If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet" - Tom Peters
"If timing ain't everything, it's damn close" - Tom Peters
"If you're not confused, you're not paying attention" - Tom Peters
"One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period" - Tom Peters
"Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets" -Tom Peters
"Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today" - Tom Peters
"Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast" - Tom Peters
"Underpromise; overdeliver" - Tom Peters
"Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low" - Tom Peters
"You can't think your way out of a box, you've got to act" - Tom Peters
"Big thinking precedes great achievement" - Wilfred Peterson
"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgement is the treasurer of a wise man" - William Penn
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."— Sam Rayburn
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."—Theodore Roosevelt
"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."—Theodore Roosevelt
"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows."— Clarence Randall
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" - Ayn Rand
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just" - Anita Roddick OBE
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito" - Anita Roddick OBE
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possile to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier
"Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgement" - Anthony Robbins
"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them" - Dean Rusk
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" -Eleanor Roosevelt
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we employ to hide them" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there." - Franklin D Roosevelt
"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility" - John Ruskin
"I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class manager running a first-rate business" - Jack E. Reichert
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it" - John Ruskin
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation, character" - John D. Rockefeller
"The road to happines lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have" - John D Rockefeller
"Assume nothing, pursue everything" - Kevin Riper
"A leader has two important characteristics; first he is going somewhere; second he is able to persuade others to go with him" - Maximilian Francois Robespierre
"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback" - Pat Riley
"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer" - Rainer Maria Rilke
"The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service" - Sol Roth
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives" - Theodore Roosevelt
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling while they do it" - Theodore Roosevelt
"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces" -Wilma Rudolph
"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces" - Will Rodgers
"It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing" - Quintilian
"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly" -Quintilian
"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish" - Quintilian
