| Steve Jobs |
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. |
decision making,execution,vision |
| Pablo Picasso |
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist |
decision making,execution,expertise,leadership |
| Dalai Lama |
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively. |
execution,expertise,leadership |
| John Maxwell |
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. |
leadership,teamwork |
| Abraham Maslow |
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. |
growth |
| Abraham Maslow |
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. |
growth |
| Mary Kay Ash |
Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are worth their weight in gold. |
execution |
| Henry Ford |
Execution without vision is just passing time. |
execution,vision |
| Eike Batista |
The secret of success is execution, not merely knowledge. |
execution,success |
| Phil Knight |
Execution is everything. It’s the last 95 percent of the equation. |
execution |
| Zig Ziglar |
Execution is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. |
execution |
| Bill Gates |
Effective execution of a bad idea is better than the bad execution of a good idea. |
execution,leadership |
| Bill Gates |
The most brilliant strategy won’t lead to success unless it’s executed effectively. |
execution,leadership |
| Gary Keller |
Execution is the great equalizer – it’s the one thing that separates the winners from the losers. |
execution |
| Thomas Edison |
Strategy without execution is hallucination. |
execution |
| John Doerr |
Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. |
execution |
| William Cohen |
My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important as, and many times more so than, trying to get the most work out of them. |
leadership |
| Steve Jobs |
It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. |
leadership |
| Bruce Lee |
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. |
philosophy |
| Bruce Lee |
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. |
philosophy |
| Albert Einstein |
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. |
problem solving |
| Voltaire |
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. |
philosophy |
| Dalai Lama |
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. |
kindness,tolerance |
| Dalai Lama |
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. |
kindness |
| Dalai Lama |
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. |
compassion,kindness |
| Chinese proverb |
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. |
change |
| Craig Groeschel |
The two currencies of empowerment are clarity and trust. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
People would rather follow a leader who is always real than a leader who is always right. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The enemy of progress is complacency. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The biggest threat to future success is current success. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
An organization's default mode is complacency, not urgency. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Delegate tasks and you'll get followers, delegate authority and you'll get leaders. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without integrity, you really want them to be dumb and lazy. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. |
leadership |
| Rob Fritzemeier |
I like your API. |
leadership |
| Ricky Bobby |
In the words of the late great Colonel Sanders, ‘I’m too drunk to taste this chicken’. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. |
leadership |
| Charlie Munger |
You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long time. |
leadership |
| Charlie Munger |
A majority of life’s errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Trust is given; Mistrust is earned. |
leadership |
| Harvey Firestone |
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. |
leadership |
| Henry Ford |
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. |
leadership |
| Fred ‘Mister’ Rogers |
I hope you’re proud of yourself for all the times you’ve said ‘yes’, when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to somebody else. |
leadership |
| Herbert Swope |
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. |
leadership |
| Ken Kesey |
You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Without honest, timely feedback, your personal and organizational growth is always limited. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Leadership cannot survive where there is no trust. |
leadership |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. |
leadership |
| Ronald Reagan |
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. |
leadership |
| Tony Blair |
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. |
leadership |
| Mark Gorman |
Leaders live by choice, not by accident. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The best time to fire is before you hire. |
leadership |
| Andy Stanley |
WOW ideas to life, don’t HOW them to death. |
leadership |
| Gary Haugen |
Fear is the difference between what you learn and what you actually do. |
leadership |
| Juliet Funt |
There is no space to be creative if everything is urgent. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Respect is earned but honor is given. |
leadership |
| T.D. Jakes |
If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing our dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
People never care how much you know until they know how much you care. |
leadership |
| Ray Dalio |
If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential. |
leadership |
| Ray Dalio |
Pain + Reflection = Progress. |
leadership |
| Sam Walton |
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. |
leadership |
| Peter Drucker |
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. |
leadership |
| Steve Jobs |
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. |
leadership |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
A boss instills fear, a leader inspires confidence. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
A boss assigns blame, a leader assumes responsibility. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
A boss demands loyalty, a leader extends trust. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
A boss controls people, a leader empowers people. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
A boss is often guarded, a leader is transparent. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Hire passion, train skills. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Position may give you power to control, but trust will give you permission to lead. |
leadership |
| John Wooden |
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. |
leadership |
| John Wooden |
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. |
leadership |
| John Wooden |
Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable. |
leadership |
| Harry Truman |
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. |
leadership |
| Babe Ruth |
The loudest boos always come from the cheapest seats. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Your ability may get you to the top, but your character is what keeps you there. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Suffocate the flames of envy with a blanket of gratitude. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Show more appreciation than you think you should and then double it. |
leadership |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The man who knows how will always have a job the man who knows why will always be his boss. |
leadership |
| Thomas Edison |
There are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something. |
leadership |
| John F. Kennedy |
Only those who dare to fail greatly, achieve greatly. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius- and a lot of courage- to move in the opposite direction. |
leadership |
| Steven Furtik |
Creativity can be like cracking a safe. It takes a while to get in, but once you're in, there's so much inside you can use. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
When your emotions are high, your wisdom is low. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
If you live for the praise of people, you’ll die from the lack of it. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
You can buy [someone’s] time, but you can’t buy their heart. |
leadership |
| Marcus Aurelius |
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. |
leadership |
| David Allen |
You can do anything, but not everything. |
leadership |
| Thomas Edison |
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The potential of your organization rests on the strength of its people. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
As leaders, we want to work to promote potential, not just performance. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Humility is usually a better indicator of potential than misplaced confidence. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Centered leaders don’t produce followers. Centered leaders create leaders. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
“It’s not what you do occasionally that makes your organization successful. It’s what you do consistently. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Self-absorbed leaders produce resentful followers. |
leadership |
| Bill Gates |
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. |
leadership |
| Lao Tzu |
To lead people, walk behind them. |
leadership |
| African Proverb |
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. |
leadership |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. |
leadership |
| Andy Stanley |
Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life. |
leadership |
| Mother Teresa |
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. |
leadership |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. |
leadership |
| C.S. Lewis |
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. |
leadership |
| Lao Tzu |
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. |
leadership |
| Buddha |
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. |
leadership,philosophy |
| Craig Groeschel |
Successful people do consistently what other people do occasionally. |
leadership |
| Jim Rohn |
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. |
leadership |
| Bob Goff |
Assume you don’t need permission to do good. |
leadership |
| Arnold H. Glasow |
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. |
leadership |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
leadership |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear. |
leadership |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. |
leadership |
| George S. Patton Jr. |
Pressure makes diamonds. |
leadership |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. |
leadership |
| Charlie Munger |
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do. |
leadership |
| General Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State |
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The key to growth is not doing more, but doing more of what really matters. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
You can have control, or you can have growth, but you can't have both. |
leadership |
| Tony Robbins |
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Healthy systems never happen by accident. They are created. |
leadership |
| Benjamin Franklin |
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. |
leadership |
| Annie Dillard |
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. |
leadership |
| Maya Angelou |
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. |
leadership |
| Andy Grove |
Bad companies are destroyed by crises; good companies survive them; great companies are improved by them. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading… |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. |
leadership |
| Thomas J. Watson |
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. |
leadership |
| Warren Buffett |
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. |
leadership |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. |
leadership |
| Joseph Campbell |
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. |
leadership |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
The biggest issue with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. |
leadership |
| Henry Ford |
If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. |
leadership |
| Bryant McGill |
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax. |
leadership |
| Alan Cohen |
There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it. |
leadership,problem solving |
| Steve Jobs |
Focus and simplicity… Once you get there, you can move mountains. |
leadership |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Only in the darkness can you see the stars. |
leadership |
| Paul Erdos |
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. |
leadership |
| Zig Ziglar |
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. |
leadership |
| Zig Ziglar |
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. |
leadership |
| Zig Ziglar |
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. |
leadership |
| Harold Wilson |
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. |
leadership |
| Steve Jobs |
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. |
leadership |
| John Maxwell |
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. |
leadership |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. |
leadership |
| Felix Dennis |
Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does. |
leadership |
| George Patton |
A good plan, violently executed now is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. |
leadership |
| Michael Dell |
Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not. |
leadership |
| Steve Jobs |
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions. |
leadership |
| Melchor Lim |
There is no exercise better for the improvement of our world than reaching down on a daily basis to lift someone up. |
leadership |
| Mark Twain |
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. |
leadership |
| Craig Groeschel |
Our importance isn't a reflection of who we are, but of who we empower. It's not what happens in our presence that determines our effectiveness, but in our absence. |
leadership |
| Charles Kettering |
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. |
leadership |
| Lao Tzu |
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. |
leadership |
| Vala Afshar |
We are not a team because we work together. We are a team because we respect, trust, and care for each other. |
leadership |
| Albert Einstein |
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. |
leadership |
| James Clear |
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity. This is one reason why meaningful change does not require radical change. Small habits can make a meaningful difference by providing evidence of a new identity. And if a change is meaningful, it is actually big. That's the paradox of making small improvements. |
leadership |
| James Clear |
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. |
leadership |