People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
– Nelson Mandele.
Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.
– Mark Cuban
Leadership is the product of your imagination.
– Paradigms of Leadership
If your treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership is not what you know or who you know, but how to transfer what you know into the hearts and minds of who you know.
– Mike Myatt
Inside my empty bottle, I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
– Charles Simic
When I talk to managers I get the feeling they are important. When I talk to leaders I get the feeling that I am important
– Alexander Den Heijer
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
– Maya Angelou
You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.
– Robyn Benincasa
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