INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES TO INSPIRE LEADERSHIP
"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."
Steve Jobs
"Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past."
Richard Marcinko --- Submitted by Lauren Covington --- New Jersey
"Anyone who calls himself a leader and expects to be liked by everyone has deceived himself and will most likely, at some point, deceive his followers."
Written in 2013 by Jamani Warren --- Alabama
This quote was created to encourage teachers, or any leader who will inevitably face students or followers that will not like them for the simplest reasons. I encourage them to press on because you willnot liked if you do and you will not be liked if you don't, by some. God Speed.
"A leader sees with both his eyes and his mind. He is said to be dexterous of hand and inventive of mind."
Written in 2013 by Sheye Hassan --- Nigeria
"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich the leader."
John C. Maxwell
"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."
John Crosby
"Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward opening new doors and doing new things because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
Walt Disney ---Submitted by Lauren Covington
"I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions."
James Sinegal - Co-Founder, Costco
"Companies that change may survive, but companies that transform thrive. Change brings incremental or small-scale adaptations, while transformation brings great improvements that ripple through the future of an organization."
Nick Candito
Submitted by Lauren Covington
"A leader always finds a way where there seems to be no way. He sees the path ahead and paves the way for others."
Written in 2013 by Sheye Hassan --- Nigeria
"Seeing a good human resource development department in action is like seeing abundant fire in every piece of coal."
Written in 2013 by Pramod Kumar Sharma --- India
I have seen HRD personnel motivating people in such a way so as to convert even the most negative people into positive. With this incident, a counter line of appreciation came to my mind.
"Powerful and sustained change requires constant communication, not only throughout the rollout but after the major elements of the plan are in place. The more kinds of communication employed, the more effective they are."
DeAnne Aguirre
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