28 Inspiring Quotes on Leadership in Business

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28 Inspiring Quotes on Leadership in Business

 

 

Leadership is a learned skill. You can learn how to lead others by examining leaders you admire, by following their examples and listening to their advice. These quotes can help. Study the words and find out more about the leaders who spoke them-- and whether they lived up to their own advice. See if their words make a difference in your leadership role.
1. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." Mario Andretti
3. "There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust." Klaus Balkenhol
4. "The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Theodore Roosevelt
5. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." Ronald Reagan
6. "Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?" Margaret Thatcher
7. "A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls." Larry Crabb
8. "Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do." Warren G. Bennis
9. "Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." Winston Churchill
10. "Hire character. Train skill." Peter Schutz
11. "Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems." Brian Tracy
12. "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." Sam Walton
13. "If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever." G.K. Chesterton
14. "Great leadership is about human experiences. It's not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine." Lance Secretan
15. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
16. "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." John Maxwell
17. "Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them." Robert Jarvik
18. "A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him." Mark Brouwer
19. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Solomon in Proverbs 29:18
20. "The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes." Tony Blair
21. "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." Rosalynn Carter
22. "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie
23. "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." Colin Powell
24. "Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." Peter F. Drucker
25. "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." Thomas J. Watson
26. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow a weak trumpet." Theodore Hesburgh
27. "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." Max Lucado
28. "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership." John Kenneth Galbraith

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Employee Spotlight: The HR Intern Jocelyn

With every new opportunity in your life, it comes with excitement, anticipation, and worst of all, fear. There is always the dread of having a terrible first day and not being able to keep up with whatever is being thrown at you. I arrived to the office with this mentality and a side of first day jitters. As the saying goes, hope for the best and expect the worst.

               Coming intothe office, I was instantly greeted with ecstatic welcomes by whoever I happen to come across. The upbeat music and commotion coming from the back of the office convinced me that this day would have a better chance of ending on a positive note. That definitely helped ease my anxiety and prepare myself better for the workday. After introductions, I eventually eased into the workload while occasionally being asked whether I was being overwhelmed. I was not at the least. By keeping my mind focused on completing the tasks, there was no stopping me in getting the work done. Personally, there is nothing I enjoy more than working in fast-paced situations.

My fear of not being able to keep up was overhyped in my mind when I was able to ask questions about anything that was newly introduced to me. The people and environment allowed me to thrive in my work.  I just had to remember that I was hired for a reason and was more than capable to complete anything. It’s always all in your mind.

Now, you can catch me at the front desk getting used to my daily grind. Feel free to say hello because I’m always open for a good conversation!

 

5 Habits To Drop if You Want To Be Successful

5 Habits To Drop if You Want To Be Successful

Most people believe that a lack of success is due to their own personal faults. They think that not being the best, the brightest, or the most intelligent will stifle their growth, and make going after their most prized aspirations futile.

The Truth? Not being the smartest, or the most talented won’t hinder your success, but hanging on to destructive habits will.

Habit #1: Expecting yourself to live up to others’ expectations

Your girlfriend? Your friends? Your boss? They’re all people who don’t have to walk a single day in your shoes and will never know what it is like to live your life. So, why is it that their opinions hold so much weight?

When you focus on meeting other people’s expectations, you’re forced into a position where you have to meet all the conditions associated with those expectations, and if you don’t you can end up ruining valuable relationships, and important connections.

Setting your own expectations will force the people around you to see you as an individual, and will allow you to define success on your own terms.

Habit #2: Obsessing over things that don’t matter

You feeling like a hotshot in front of your lady friends? Doesn’t matter.

You experiencing true happiness, and having the ability to pursue any dream possible? Now, that matters.

It can become so easy to fall into this treacherous habit, and start to worry about what others think of you, or and what you should be doing with your life, but at the end of the day only you have to live with yourself. Don’t worry about your friends, and family; they have their own lives to live, and their own problems to bear.  Worry about yourself, and about how you can go to bed every night happier, healthier and more content than the last day.

Habit #3: Dwelling on past failures

It’s normal to hate yourself sometimes, but it does you absolutely no good to provoke that self-hatred by dwelling on your mistakes. When you feel down on yourself, look at it as an opportunity to learn.

If you fail, instead of tearing yourself apart, tear your failure apart. Rip it up and destroy it, then take a long, hard look at the pieces. When it’s all laid out there before you, you have the chance to transform your negative thoughts into insightful questions. Turn, “That was a crappy decision.” into “What led me to think this was a solid decision?” While a certain amount of negative thinking can drive us to become better and stronger people, it is much more beneficial to adopt habits that lead us to question why we failed rather than dwelling on failure itself.

Habit #4: Bragging about your big dreams

Nobody cares that you want to be an actor until you’re on the big screen and they can say, “I knew that guy when he worked at Taco Bell.” Until that day, you’re just slinging tacos, and any attention you direct to your optimistic future will be met with doubt, and pity.

The more time you spend talking about your dreams, the less time you’re spending going after those dreams. In a lot of ways, dreams are like children: they’re something that you should be proud of, something that belongs to you, but when you start unfolding that picture folio in your wallet, everyone groans.

Just like children though, you’ve got to take care of your dreams and you’ve got to take steps to ensure they have the necessary means  to develop. There’s nothing wrong with carrying constant reminders of your goals to keep you focused, but keep them to yourself.

Habit #5: NOT being a sore loser

Anger is very often portrayed as a negative emotion, but it doesn’t have to be. There’s a virtuous quality to anger that very few realize is present: When people are angry, in their minds they are right, and to rectify the situation they blow up. Or curse out their boss. Or punch a wall. Or lock themselves in their apartment, and spend three days shouting obscenities and drinking beer.

The good news is, blowing up, getting angry, and feeling like the world is against you is perfectly healthy, and is an essential part of eventual success. While dwelling in your anger for too long can impede your personal development, basking in your righteousness for a few days after a defeat can motivate you to try harder, and work smarter.

Humans are creatures of habit, and the behaviors that we display on the daily basis define who we are, and what path ous lives take. This means that true success comes from implementing the right habits, and dropping the ones that hold you back.