Lessons for Leaders

“…companies that do make a lot of money almost never have as their goal ‘making a lot of money.’ They tend to be run by enthusiasts who, in the normal course of gratifying their own tastes and curiosities, come up with products or services so startling, so compelling, and so exciting that customers practically rip their trouser pockets reaching for their wallets.”
Bob Lutz

“When people walk away with a vision, it changes the whole picture, it shows them what we can accomplish … If you show people what’s coming and how to get there, it changes everything. You have to have a vision.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch

“Theory without practice is empty; practice without theory is blind.”
John Dewey

“We are the first nation put to a true test of spirit not by adversity but by its absence….”
John Silber

“The world is changing so rapidly that people don’t have to be mentally ill to be out of their minds some of the time, behaving inappropriately much of the time and a little bit disoriented all of the time.”
Frank Pittman III, MD

“Managers try to be heroes; leaders try to make heroes.”
Mark Sanborn

“You teach what you know but you reproduce who you are.”
John Maxwell

“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more.”
Jules Renard

“If you aren’t a little bit afraid, you ain’t going fast enough.”
Richard Petty

“The unhappiness, unease and unrest in the world today are caused by people living far below their capacity.”
Abraham Maslow

“We work to become, not to acquire.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Example is not the main thing in persuading others; it’s the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer

“To the blind, all things are sudden.”
Ian Percy

“When you get a hundred individuals to do 1% more than they would have done without you, you have created a new life.”
Mason Roberts

“The power of ideals is incalculable. We see no power in a drop of water. But let it get into a crack in the rock and be turned to ice, and it splits the rock; turned into steam, it drives the pistons of the most powerful engines. Something has happened to it which makes active and effective power that is latent in it.”
Albert Schweitzer

“The ultimate measure of a leader is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Change only sticks when we understand why it happened.”
Charles Handy

“A colleague of mine says that unless every client that you saw previously is cheated, you’re not doing a good job. A committed therapist learns new skills all the time; so those who came before today in a sense get cheated.”
Michelle Weiner-Davis

“Leadership throughout the developed world no longer rests on financial control or traditional cost advantages. It rests on brain power.”
Peter Drucker