Leadership Quotes

"Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today, it’s cheaper to start a business than ever."

- Noah Everett

"Data beats emotions."

- Sean Rad

"Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that."

- Anthony Volodkin

"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished."

- Lisa Cash Hanson

"Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you."

- Tony Hsieh

"To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service."

- Earl G. Graves, Sr.

"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you and 15% managing your peers."

- Dee Hock

"Success depends on employees. For me, knowing and connecting with my employees is very important."

- Divine Ndhlukula

"Success depends on employees. For me knowing and connecting with my employees is very important."

- Divine Ndhlukula

"One of the greatest skills of leadership is being unflappable. Anytime you do anything in the world; there’s going to be criticism."

- Arianna Huffington

"We learned many things while building FourSquare. One of the most important lessons is to be clear to investors about what the company will and will not do. And be open about the priorities of the things that have to be done."

- Dennis Crowley

"Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant."

- Peter Drucker

"And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really, when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."

- Steve Case

"It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius."

- Simon Sinek

"As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow."

- Himanshu Bhatia

"The US Army will never control the ground under the sky, if the US Air Force does not control the sky over the ground."

- Col Gene Cirillo, USAF (Ret)

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."

- Winston Churchill

"In the symphony of finance, CPAs are the conductors of financial harmony."

- Melissa Davis

"In the symphony of professionalism, CPAs are the maestros of fiscal responsibility."

- Richard Turner

"Corporate success is a symphony, and accountants are the conductors orchestrating financial harmony."

- Olivia Martinez

"In the boardrooms of success, accountants are the trusted advisors shaping financial destinies."

- Robert Johnson

"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory."

- George S. Patton

"In the symphony of financial understanding, accountants are the conductors of economic enlightenment."

- Christopher Miller

"In the financial labyrinth, accountants are the guides, leading us towards prosperity."

- Emily White

"Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths."

- John H. Zenger

"The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems."

- Nathan W. Dougherty

"The ideal engineer is a composite… He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems."

- Nathan W. Dougherty

"If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Who believe in God and the Last Day, who order what is right and forbid what is wrong, who are quick to do good deeds. These people are among the righteous."

- Quran 3:114

"Travel: like a boss… of my own life."