"Quotes For Leaders and Teams"
"It's never enough to tell people about some new insight. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way."
John Seely Brown
"Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met."
W. Clement Stone
"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them."
Jack Welch
"The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us."
Hubert Humphrey
"Change starts when someone sees the next step."
William Drayton
"A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea."
Victor Hugo
"The difference between a good leader and a great leader is this: A good leader can do amazing things and accomplish his goals. A great leader can inspire those around them to do amazing things and accomplish their goals. Only you can choose what to be."
Written in 2010 by Nick Hendricksen --- Kentucky
"A leader should think like Marx, act like Gandhi."
Written in 2010 by Noble Jebakumar --- India
This is my personal experience in this fast and challenging world. Our life is bounded with limits and enmity. If we adopt this style of living, we can touch the sky without limits.
"I dream not to become a manager but to become an owner."
Written in 2010 by Jenirose Sulit --- Philippines
"I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them."
Harold Geneen
"You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures."
Charles C. Noble
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."
Mia Hamm
"Don't mistake activity with achievement."
John Wooden
"A leader must lead. Where others see obstacles, he must see opportunities. When others see problems, he must see possibilities. Civilization is not built on a negation but on an affirmation - an affirmation of the bright and promising possibilities that the future holds for those who are enterprising enough to pursue them."
David J. Vaughan
"Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability."
Patrick Lencioni
"There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back."
Billy Martin
"The only test of leadership is that somebody follows."
Robert K. Greenleaf
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
Bruce Barton
"I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things; you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles."
Scott Adams --- Submitted by Lauren Covington --- New Jersey
"Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden."
Tulku Thondup --- Submitted by George Wachirah --- Kenya
"Believe in velocity because speed is directionless"
Written in 2010 by H. Wasnik --- India
"If you want to change something, start at the moment you conceive it."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Sandeep Tripathi --- India
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
Ludwig Wittgenstein --- Submitted by George Wachirah --- Kenya
"Don't be waiting; always be wanting."
Laxminarayana Gudipati (LG) ---Submitted by GR Reddy --- India
People should choose between being reactive or being proactive, especially during crisis management. This simple quote will help them do the right thing.
"As innovative and inspirational leaders, we must push through barriers of conventional thinking."
Written in 2010 by Karm Sandhu --- Canada
"Every time you don't get the promotion, that's the luxury of time that your company is giving you to develop and train yourself to be a better leader in the future."
Written in 2010 by Gigs Gasper --- Philippines
"Total commitment is the crucial character for those who want to reach the top in their profession."
Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam ---Submitted by Vikash Kumar ---India
I am very much inspired by this.