Leadership Quotes

"Like people, when companies work to foster a culture of collaboration, communication becomes second nature."

- Doug McMillon

"Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture."

- Satya Nadella

"The company culture is about being human, being good to other people."

- Logan Green

"Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism."

- Stephen Covey

"There’s no magic formula for great company culture. The key is just to treat your staff how you would like to be treated."

- Richard Branson

"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface."

- Ken Robinson

"The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and intellectual capital are managed by human capital. You'd better get the human capital part right."

- Dave Bookbinder

"The hardest challenge being an HR is that sometimes you have to be the LAWYER, the JUDGE, and the HANGMAN."

- Hassan Choughari

"The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources"

- Sunday Adelaja

"Recruitment IS marketing. If you’re a recruiter nowadays and you don’t see yourself as a marketer, you’re in the wrong profession"

- Matthew Jeffrey

"Any idiot can point out a problem... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!"

- Tony Robbins

"Inventories can be managed but people must be led."

- Ross Perot

"If you’re good to your staff when things are going well, they’ll rally when things go bad."

- Mary Kay Ash

"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well."

- Bill Owens

"Management is nothing more than motivation other people"

- Lee Lacocca

"The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you."

- John Maxwell

"Children imitate their parents, employees their managers."

- Amit Kalantri

"Every good conversation starts with listening."

- Tom Haak

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

- Paul J. Meyer

"C leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing"

- Rollo May

"The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through."

- Sydney J. Harris

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

- William Shakespeare

"For effective communication think about how is your speech is perceived than in what you are actually saying."

- Byron Rivers

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."

- Shannon L. Alder

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing"

- Mark Twain

"We never listen when we are eager to speak"

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be Sincere; be brief, be seated"

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Ensure your documentation is short and sharp and make much more use of people-to-people communication."

- Bentley and Borman

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life."

- Brian Tracy