Leadership Quotes

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see."

- Alexandra K. Trenfor

"The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest."

- Simon Sinek

"In business as in life, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."

- Dr. Chet Karrass

"A salesperson tells, a good salesperson explains, and a great salesperson demonstrates."

- Harvey Mackay

"The true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less."

- John C. Maxwell

"A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things."

- Ronald Reagan

"The art of advocacy is to lead you to my conclusion on your terms."

- Adam Grant

"HR professionals play three roles: storyteller, strategy interpreter, strategic facilitator."

- Dave Ulrich

"In most cases, being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way."

- Tina Fey

"In the modern, networked, and symbiotic world we live in, people management is less about squeezing performance from the organized few and more about curating contribution from the limitless many."

- Gyan Nagpal

"In order to build a rewarding employee experience, you need to understand what matters most to your people."

- Julie Bevacqua

"Leadership is about giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

- Seth Godin

"Don’t hire anyone you wouldn’t want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning."

- Tina Fey

"Without the right succession planning put to play in human resources, we build for the future without a future."

- Mmanti Umoh

"Leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations."

- Jack Welch

"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies."

- Lawrence Bossidy

"The essence of leadership is not getting overwhelmed by circumstances."

- Kim Scott

"Before you are a leader, success is about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is about growing others."

- Jack Welch

"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in the pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."

- Lee Brown

"Ultimately, delivering strategy is about hiring the right people and motivating them to deliver results."

- Helen M. & P. Schubert

"You don’t build a business – you build people – and then people build your business."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you believe people are fundamentally good and worthy of trust, you must be honest and transparent with them. That includes telling them when they are lagging behind in their performance. But having a mission-driven, purposeful workplace also requires that you approach people with sensitivity."

- Laszlo Bock

"Communication – the human connection – is the key to personal and career success."

- Paul J. Meyer

"Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed."

- Aaron Goldman

"Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way."

- Jeff Bezos

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got."

- Peter Drucker

"People are starving for decisiveness. If you give it to them, you will rule the world."

"Be a voice. Not an echo"