Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- If we don’t understand people, we don’t understand business.
- If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.
- If we would be bright lights in a dark world, we need to be known not merely for what we’re against, but for what we’re for.
- If you are moved with a vague desire to help men be better men, you must know that you can do it not by belabouring the evil but by training the good that there is in them.
- If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
- If you can’t handle the truth, people will stop telling you the truth.
- If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
- If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
- If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.
- If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.
- If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you—like a fever.
- If you really want to create something that lasts generations, you have to help inspire the next generation.
- If you set a good example you need not worry about setting rules.
- If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.
- If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble.
- If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
- If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.
- If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
- If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
- If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
- If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground.
- If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.Simon SinekCommonly attributed
- If you're good to people, and fair with them, and demanding of them, they will eventually decide you're on their side.
- Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
- In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one.
- In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
- In the long run, the people we trust the most are those who have the courage to be sincere.
- Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
- Integrity is holding ourselves to the same high standards that we have for others.
- Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
- Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
- It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.
- It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.