Quotes

Management Quotes

Treasure diversity, Seek unity not uniformity, Strive for oneness not sameness. – Dan Zadra

Hire the Best.  Pay them Fairly. Communicate Frequently. Provide Challenges and Rewards. Believe in Them. Get Out of Their Way — They’ll Knock Your Socks Off! – Mary Ann Allison

When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur. – Robert Rosenthal and Elisha Babad

If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. – Mary Kay Ash

People tend to resist that which is forced upon them. People tend to support that which they help to create. –Vince Pffaf

Leadership Quotes

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.  – John C. Maxwell

When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, “We did it ourselves.” – Lao-Tsu

Leaders come out from behind the desk and openly engage in emotional issues that connect them with their followers. –John Zenger

Leaders ask questions. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. –Robert Half

The aim of the great leader is not to get people to think more highly of the leader. It’s to get people to think more highly of themselves. –Bob Moawad

Very Few Natural Leaders Turn Up in the Workplace, People Become Leaders. – Milton Cotter

Alice came to a fork in the road. Which road do I take?, she asked. Where do you want to go?, responded the Cheshire cat.  I don’t know, Alice answered.  Then, said the cat, It doesn’t matter what road you take. – Lewis Carroll

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. — Peter Drucker

Change Quotes

 It’s easy to come up with new ideas.  The hard part is letting go of something that worked for you two years ago, but which is no longer useful. –Roger Von Oech

If we don’t change, we don’t grow.  If we don’t grow, we are not really living.– Gail Sheehy

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.–Nelson Mandela

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.–Confucius

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.–Margaret Mead

Innovation Quotes

We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.—Maya Angelou

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking! –General George Patton

If you have an organization where people are scared of failing that they won’t take the risk of learning something new, you don’t get the innovation that’s required to grow. –Gary Smith

If you tell people the destination, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results! –George Patton

Don’t expect anything original from an echo. –Unknown

Emotional Intelligence Quotes

If you don’t realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don’t give proper respect for other people’s talents. –Hortense Canady

Each problem has a hidden opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.  The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. –Joseph Sugarman

Success seems to be connected with action.  Successful people keep moving.  They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton

If you are going to have ideas ahead of the times, you will have to get used to living with the fact that most people are going to believe you are in the wrong! –Bruce Lloyd

Problems Are Given To You For A Purpose, They Are Opportunities in Disguise, Thank God For Them! –Don Ward

It is Not Who is Right, But What is Right That Counts. –Thomas Huxley

I Always Tried to Turn Every Disaster Into an Opportunity. –John Rockefeller

There Are Really No Bad Experiences! –Leo Buscaglia

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Communication Quotes

The one thing a leader cannot withhold from people in the Information Age is information. – Carla O’Dell.

Leaders ask questions. Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.  –Robert Half

Communicate Everything You Possibly Can To Your Team. The More They Understand The More They’ll Care. Once They Care, There’s No Stopping Them. –Sam Walton

Communication works for those who work at it. –John Powell

If You Don’t Give People Information, They’ll Make Up Something to Fill the Void.– Carla O’Dell

Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. — Dr. Laurence Peters

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. –Epictetus