Business Leadership Quotes
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Business Leadership Quotes & Sayings
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One can bootstrap in business, one must never bootstrap life..!
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Our perceptions of 'managing' employees are founded on archaic outdated business fundamentals.
— Shawn Casemore
Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
— Tony Dovale
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
— John Wooden
Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
— Jeff Landry
Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.
— John C. Maxwell
Shape your mindsets or your mindsets will shape you.
— Mindy Hall
Make sure your priorities line up with your values.
— Michael Barbarulo
Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.
— Dan James
Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
— Lolly Daskal
But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
— Ronald A. Heifetz
A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.
— Onyi Anyado
He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate
— Sanjaya Baru
Leadership is a conversation.
— William A. Adams
Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.
— Ryan Lilly
The CIO needs to be an enterprise 'polyglot,' to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.
— Pearl Zhu
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
— Jack Ma
We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.
— Crystal Kadakia
Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.
— Tony Curl
We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
— Tom Peters
When you are on top of your game you don't have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.
— Dorethia Conner Kelly
Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste
— Paul Gibbons
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
— Jack Welch
Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.
— W.Chan Kim
Part-time effort means part-tim results.
— Tony Curl
If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.
— William A. Adams
Sometimes the best way to get other people to give up their egos is for you to give up yours first.
— Jane Ripley
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
— Crystal Woods
Strategy is about shaping the future.
— Max McKeown
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
— Michael Eisner
If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.
— Sue Tetzlaff
When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.
— Bob Anderson
A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
— Mark W. Boyer
No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!
— Amit Chatterjee
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
— Mike Van Hoozer
Ay tank it blow purty soon purty hard!" he said, and died.
— Business And Leadership Publishing
A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles
— Agona Apell
What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
— Tom Rath
The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
— Paul Gibbons
Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
— Roger James Hamilton
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
— Stephen Covey
There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
— Todd Stocker
Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
— Alan Sakowitz
To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.
— Lee Ellis
The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.
— Agona Apell
Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
— Lee Ellis
Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do.
— Shawn Casemore
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.
— Barbra Pletcher
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
— Lee Ellis
Social Media begins with a story - your story.
— Germany Kent
The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
— Carolyn Taylor
Careers are developed one conversation at a time - over time.
— Beverly Kaye Julie Winkle Giulioni
Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
— Tom Rath
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
— Sheryl Sandberg
When a family is unified, it doesn't matter what business they're in. They can successfully transition from one generation to the next.
— Andrew Keyt
Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
— David J. Greer
I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.
— Nelson Mandela
For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
— Andrew Griffin
Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
— Christopher Babson
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
— Catherine DeVrye
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
— David Rockefeller
A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
— Harry S. Truman
Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra
— Deepak Mehra
You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.
— Mark Miller
If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town
— William Faulkner
The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.
— Patricia Aburdene
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.
— Phil Knight
In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
— Philip M. Rosenzweig
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
— Jack Ma
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
— Arnold H. Glasow
good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they're in.
— Ed Catmull
God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business
— Sunday Adelaja
I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.
— Justin Greene
In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
— Shawn Casemore
If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.
— David J. Greer
Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.
— Michael Kroger