"FOR LEADERS & TEACHERS"
"Dog gives birth to dogs and not goats; cat gives birth to cats: The quality of a Leader is directly equivalent to the quality of his followers. Show me a passionate follower of a vision and I'll show you a passionate Leader."
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Effiong
"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our core values are our foundation."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Pravin Chamlikar --- India
"I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hands. If you hold it too tightly, you crush it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it."
Tommy Lasorda
"Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off."
Mary Ann Allison
"Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides - what a person is (character) and what a person does (competence)."
Stephen Covey
"Only positive consequences encourage good future performances."
Kenneth H. Blanchard
"A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment."
W. Edwards Deming
"The brightest and most valuable diamond started life as just a lump of carbon."
Peter Dilger --- Submitted by John Green --- England
It very aptly describes the potential we often fail to see in the people we work with, educate or meet in our daily lives.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
Winston Churchill --- Submitted by Mike Scullin --- New York
The Bulldog said many worthwhile things, being a prolific talker, but this reminder to keep perspective whenever possible, while less humorous than some of his sayings, and less caustic than others, seems to have lasting value.
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
Ralph Lauren
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."
Douglas Noel Adams
"Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach."
Rosabeth Moss Kantor
"Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice."
Max DePree
"Vision without Execution is Hallucination."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by J. Woods --- California
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched."
George Hean Nathan
"Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization."
Peter F. Drucker
"Every child can be reached; you just have to stretch far enough."
Copyright © 2006 Robyn Sorrell
I wrote it for my quote to use in the classroom.
"The more angles from which you attack a problem, the faster it will become dust beneath your feet."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Anantha G. --- India
"Responsibility is Your ability to respond to necessity."
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Effiong
"In business as in life, one has no right to expect success or reward of any kind, unless one has accepted the obligation to invest all available resources in achieving that task."
Copyright © 2007 Christos S. Efessiou
I have used this quote for years to explain to employees and co-workers the importance of "spen ding" to "make".
"To go beyond what is known to be possible, you must strive to attain what is thought to be impossible."
Anthony Lynn Nichols --- Submitted by Bill Davidson --- Utah
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
John D. Rockefeller
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