Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.
- Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.
- Do not think you can be brave with your life and your work and never disappoint anyone. It doesn’t work that way.
- Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.
- Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
- Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
- Do something good and someone might imitate it.
- Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
- Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
- Don't find fault; find a remedy.
- Don’t give orders and try to be followed; try to be understood and to understand others by getting in sync.
- Don’t just follow people because you agree with what they think. Follow them because you’re intrigued by how they think – and how they make you think.
- Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Each person must live their life as a model for others.
- Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.
- Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep which always herd together.
- Earn your leadership every day.
- Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best of them. The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
- Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
- Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.Peter F. DruckerCommonly attributed
- Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
- Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
- Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results.
- Energy of character has always a power to evoke energy in others.
- Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
- Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.
- Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
- Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
- Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
- Everyone desires warmth and hope. When you paint a bright future for people, they feel the warmth. And they feel the optimism that comes from the “light” you provide. A prime function of every leader is to keep hope alive.
- Everyone is a potential winner. Some people are disguised as losers. Don’t let their appearances fool you.
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
- Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.
- Everything rises and falls on leadership.John C. MaxwellSourced
- Example has more followers than reason.