Leadership Quotes

"Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences."

- Brian Tracy

"Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know."

- Roy T. Bennett

"May we hope that, when we are all dead and gone, leaders will arise who have been personally experienced in the hard, practical work, the difficulties, and the joys of organizing nursing reforms and who will lead far beyond anything we have done!"

- Florence Nightingale

"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Customer service shouldn't just be a department, it should be the entire company."

- Tony Hsieh

"Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions."

- Marilyn Hewson

"Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages."

- Henry Ford

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

- Peter Drucker

"Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success."

- Warren Buffett

"Expecting people to reflect the productivity patterns of machinery is crazy if we also expect them to be creative, present and engaged."

- Martin Hill-Wilson

"Your culture is how your company makes decisions when you’re not there. It’s the set of assumptions your employees use to resolve the problems they face every day. It’s how they behave when no one is looking. If you don’t methodically set your culture, then two-thirds of it will end up being accidental, and the rest will be a mistake."

- Ben Horowitz

"If you wonder what getting and keeping the right employees has to do with getting and keeping the right customers, the answer is everything."

- Frederick Reichheld

"As a leader it is important to not just see your own success. But focus on the success of others."

- Sundar Pichai

"Good leaders must first become good servants."

- Robert Greenleaf

"Customer experience to me is leadership bravery. The companies that are most admired are growing with their values and are choosing how they will grow and how they will not grow."

- Jeanne Bliss

"Organizations must master these in order to build a sustainable foundation for success."

- Aimee Lucas

"Leadership is service, not position."

- Tim Fargo

"Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."

- Marv Levy

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."

- Abe Lemons

"Your culture is how your company makes decisions when you’re not there."

- Ben Horowitz

"Organizations must master these in order to build a sustainable foundation for success. They are: Respond, Enlighten, Activate, Realize, Lead, Disrupt."

- Aimee Lucas

"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."

- Diogenes of Sinope

"Positive leadership literally morphs the workplace from a place where people work at a job to one where they thrive."

- Steve Gladis

"Work gives people the opportunity to do good by making a positive impact."

- Beth Cabrera

"Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference."

- Mac Anderson

"Listen with attention, speak with intention."

- Unknown

"Write to express, not impress."

- Unknown

"Strategy is about choosing what not to do."

- Unknown

"When a measure becomes a goal it ceases to become a measure."

- Unknown