Shift the emphasis from saying the right things to asking the right questions.
– Linda Edgecombe
Tag Archives: Attitude
A leader…
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs
– Robert Townsend
I never…
I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives of the masses — you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.
– Eugene V. Debs
Choice…
Choice of attention—to pay attention to this and ignore that—is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
– W.H. Auden
If each…
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
– David Ogilvy
Whatever….
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
– Napoleon Hill
Winners…
Winners are the people who make a habit of doing the things losers find uncomfortable.
– Ed Foreman
Thinking is…
Thinking is easy, taking action is difficult and putting one’s own thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you…
If you cannot allow people to do their jobs … nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
– Condoleezza Rice
When…
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can’t find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
– Ross Perot
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