… positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviours. Keep your behaviours positive because your behaviours become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
– Gandhi
… the corruption and disruption in the corporation is the result of leaders’ failure to lead themselves
– Tony Baron
… in our employees. Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it, we will receive it. Any person in a managerial position, from supervisor to president, who feels that his employee is basically not as good as he is and who suspects his employee is always trying to put something over on him, lacks the necessary qualities for human leadership – to say nothing of human friendship
– Harry Humphries
… be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
– Jesse Jackson
… of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests
– Gail Sheehy
…. from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
– Mohandas Gandhi
… we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.
– Albert Pine
….. isn’t about power for the sake of power – not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can’t make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly
– Laura Weakley
… and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
– Harvey S. Firestone
… has to be able to change an organisation that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call.
– Warren Bennis
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