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Quotes on MANAGEMENT

"If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread theirwingsand put compensation as a carrier behind ityou almost don't have to

manage them."

Jack Welch

"Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich."

Robert H. Johnson

"Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of

thine hand to do it."

Proverbs 3:27

"Catch someone doing something right."

Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

Paul Dickson

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and

don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."

Ronald Reagan



"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as

means to your end."

Immanuel Kant

"Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives.

Ninety percent of the time you haven't."

Peter Drucker

"Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see

the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot of meaningless

meetings and paper shuffling. Announce a Friday afternoon off once in a while.

Cancel a Monday morning meeting or two. Tell the cast of characters you'd like

them to spend the amount of time normally spent preparing for attending the

meeting at their desks, simply thinking about an original idea."

Harvey Mackay

"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone

to accomplish."

Marcus Aurelius

"We cling to hierarchies because our place in a hierarchy is, rightly or

wrongly, a major indicator of our social worth."

Harold J. Leavitt



"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership

determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Stephen R. Covey

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . ;

Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the

routine."

David Ogilvy

"When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for:

judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard."

John W. Gardner

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guyswho are undecided."

Casey Stengel

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

John Le Caré

"Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their

solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with

them."



Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism

"I believe the real difference between success and failure in a corporation can

be very often traced to the question of how well the organization brings out

the great energies and talents of its people."

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

A Business and its Beliefs (1963)

"Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to

choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the

business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas."

Jack Welch

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people

to work."

Peter Drucker

"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet."

Henry Mintzberg

McGill University

"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes

deaf."

R Buckminster Fuller



"The conventional definition of management is getting work done through

people, but real management is developing people through work."

Agha Hasan Abedi



Quotes on ATTITUDE

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their

lives by altering their attitude of mind."

William James

P sychologist

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

Alexander Pope

"No one ever finds life worth livinghe has to make it worth living."

Unknown

"Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is

possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotionaldisease that severely distorts our perception of reality . . . a narcotic that

leaves its addicts wasted and derelict."

Eugene H. Peterson

Author of Earth and Altar

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his

goal; noting on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

W. W. Ziege



"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others

have thrown at him."

David Brinkley

T elevision Journalist

"We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we

can decide what happens to ushow we take it, what we do with itand that

is what really counts in the end."

Joseph F. Newton

"You can not always control circumstances, but you can control your own

thoughts."

Charles Popplestown

"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound

ourselves."

Thomas Edison

"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,

whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious ... think about these things."

Philippians 4:8



"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of

human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,

to choose one's own way."

Victor Frankl

M an's Search For M eaning

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every

experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and

happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."

John R. Miller

"Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value

system. You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will

help you rise above day-to-day setbacks."

Dr. Robert Conroy

in Bottom Line-P ersonal

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's

edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

Dennis Waitley

"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."

George Washington

Rules of Civility



"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go

croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."

Benjamin Disraeli

"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what

you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more

than what anyone else may think about you."

George Matthew Adams

Author

"[Sprezzatura ("unstudied nonchalance"):] Employ in everything a certain

casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done

and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It

is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives."

Baldassare Castiglione

T he Book of the Courtier , 1528

"Change your thoughts and you change the world."

Norman Vincent Peale

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you are right."

Henry Ford

"Up is never where you are now."



Belasco & Stayer

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough

people to make it worth the effort."

Herm Albright

G eneral Colin P owell's Rules:

1. It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

2. Get mad, then get over it.3. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your

position falls, your ego goes with it.

4. It can be done!

5. Be careful what you choose. You may get it.

6. Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

7. You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone

else make yours.

8. Check small things.

9. Share credit.10. Remain calm. Be kind.

11. Have a vision. Be demanding.

12. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

13. Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.



Quotes on COMMUNICATION

"Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effectiveleadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit

a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message

across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't

even matter."

Gilbert Amelio

P resident and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp.

"Leaders who make it a practice to draw out the thoughts and ideas of their

subordinates and who are receptive even to bad news will be properly

informed. Communicate downward to subordinates with at least the same

care and attention as you communicate upward to superiors."

L. B. Belker

"Frown on lapses of information. When people admit that they didn't keep you

informed, let them know that you don't want this kind of protection. A couple

of strong reactions by the manager, and a subordinate learns to make sure the

boss gets the wordall of it.

Thomas L. Quick

"Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-craftedmessages will always have an audience."

Steve Burnett

The Burnett Group



"Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our

era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create

as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act."

James Thurber

"Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to

join them."

Bruce Barton

Congressman and Author

"The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every

human being is unique and of value."

Unknown

"If you have nothing to say, say nothing."

Mark Twain

"The day soldiers stop bring you their problems is the day you have stopped

leading them."

General Colin Powell



"Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is

great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.

Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, acup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis."

T. Boone Pickens

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't

get you anywhere.

Lee Iacocca

" . . . ;a sense of humor can be a great helpparticularly a sense of humor

about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and

people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense

moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himselfand history

honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of

leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."

Dwight D.Eisenhower

"One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect."

Mark Twain

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."

Benjamin Disraeli



"Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to

communicate unto you if your positions were reversed."

Aaron Goldman

"The commander must be at constant pains to keep his troops abreast of all

the latest tactical experience and developments, and must insist on their

practical application. He must see to it that his subordinates are trained in

accordance with the latest requirements. The best form of welfare for the

troops is first-class training, for this saves unnecessary casualties."

Field Marchall Erwin Rommel

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the

difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than

to open it and remove all doubt."

Mark Twain

"The art of communication is the language of leadership."

James Humes

"Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more

application. Less explanation and more inspiration."



Andy Stanley

"The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison,

drivel and misrepresentation."

C. Northcote Parkinson

"The less people know, the more they yell."

Seth Godin



Quotes on LEADERSHIP

"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not

notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next,

the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is

done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"

Lao-tsu

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch."

Jesus Christ

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the

tigers are getting hungry."

Winston Churchill

"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is

leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading

yourselfyour own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at

least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."

Dee Hock

Founder and CEO Emeritus, Visa

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the

willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in

their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

John Kenneth Galbraith



"If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he

would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him

that he had no authority whatever."

G.K. Chesterton to Alexander Woollcott

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they

have not been."

Henry Kissinger

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to

manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a

leadership composed of average human beings."

Peter Drucker

"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it,

for the greatness is already there."

John Buchan

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done

because he wants to do it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not

leadership."



Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also

blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

Hesiod

8th Century BC Greek poet

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."

General Douglas MacArthur

"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing

and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted

commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of

leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them.

What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in

effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out

of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain

authority by giving it away."

Admiral James B. Stockdale

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through

argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."


"I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how

heroic followership can be."



Warren Bennis

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no

leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful

leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

Harry Truman

"Leadership is intentional influence."

Michael McKinney

"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and

followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary

supports for leadership."

Gary Wills

Certain T rumpets: T he Call of Leaders

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern,

but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter Brougham, T he P resent State of Law , 1828

"A leader is one who influences a specific group of people to move in a God-given direction."

J. Robert Clinton



"All Leadership is influence."

John C. Maxwell

Injoy, Inc.

"Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first

of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination;

the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy."

Wu Ch'i (430-381 BC)

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know

how to follow, too."

Sam Rayburn

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on youthe duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without

being humiliated."

Dag Hammarskjöld

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the

conviction and the will to carry on."

Walter Lippmann



"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people

obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who

talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did thisourselves.'"

Lao-Tse

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and

the boss drives."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Humans will probably always need the help of especially gifted moral leaders

in order to extend the bonds of caring and trust beyond the easy range of the

family and the face-to-face community. Such bonds have become essential to

the future of humanity."

Paul R. Lawrence, Driven T o Lead

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."

Harold Geneen

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank

you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Max DePree



"Four rules of leadership in a free legislative body:

First, no matter how hard-fought the issue, never get personal. Don't say or do

anything that may come back to haunt you on another issue, another day....Second, do your homework. You can't lead without knowing what you're

talking about....

Third, the American legislative process is one of give and take. Use your power

as a leader to persuade, not intimidate....

Fourth, be considerate of the needs of your colleagues, even if they're at the

bottom of the totem pole...."

George Bush

Former President of the United States

"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadershipdetermines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Stephen R. Covey

"Authority should be seen as a part of leadership, not as a way around it."

Michael McKinney

"He who has great power should use it lightly."

Seneca



"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way

and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group."

Sir John Harvey-Jones

"He makes a great mistake ... who supposes that authority is firmer or better

established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by

affection."

Terence

"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it

abundantly clear to those around him that he knows."

Clarence Randall

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead bygoing to that place and making a case."

Ken Kesey

"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can

do a good impression of you when you're not around."

Patrick Lencioni

"Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you."

Henry Gilmer



"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue.

It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is

lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performanceto a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal

limitations."

Peter F. Drucker

"Leadership is the ability to establish standards and manage a creative climate

where people are self-motivated toward the mastery of long term constructive

goals, in a participatory environment of mutual respect, compatible with

personal values."

Mike Vance

"The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what

they do."

Andrew Carnegie

"Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about

opening the heart. Leadership is about inspirationof oneself and of others.

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not

a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and

considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine."

Lance Secretan, I ndustry Week , October 12, 1998



"More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a

process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with

followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engagedwith them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the

processes of leadership we have learned by rote."

Lance Secretan, I ndustry Week , October 12, 1998

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple,

and useful life."

Booker T. Washington

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of

his own."

"Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated."

Fred Smith

"Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil

- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the

constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be."

William George Jordan

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change

the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."



Margaret Mead

"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men

and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires

confidence."

General Montgomery

"High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil,

tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer

safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."

George Orwell

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching."

St. Francis of Assisi

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could

be."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift

to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time whenwe have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now."

Wangari Maathai



"I think leadership comes from integrity - that you do whatever you ask others

to do. I think there are non-obvious ways to lead. Just by providing a good

example as a parent, a friend, a neighbor makes it possible for other people tosee better ways to do things. Leadership does not need to be a dramatic, fist in

the air and trumpets blaring, activity."

Scott Berkun

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

become a leader, success is all about growing others."

Jack Welch

"I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management

by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say

and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody

with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is

management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do."

Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan

"When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind,

unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim,

that a "drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall."

Abraham LincolnFebruary 22, 1842 in T emperance Address



Quotes on RESPONSIBILITY

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . . In the

final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability totake on responsibility."

Michael Korda

Editor-in-Cheif, Simon & Schuster

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Winston Churchill

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one

who dropped it."

Lou Holtz

"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off."


"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances,

the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

"The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's

only one other choice."



Doug Larson

"In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're

replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior,

discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.."

Don Henley

Singer/Songwriter

"Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of

making excuses."

George Washington Carver

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another,

and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you."

Wayne Dyer

"In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not

willingly be responsible through time and eternity."

Abraham Lincoln

December 1, 1862 M essage to Congress



"It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to

make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of

inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is myresponse that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a

person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make

them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what

they are capable of becoming.

J. W. Goethe

"I strongly believe that the responsibility of leadership is to shape the

debateto practice and project the right attributeswhether in a business

enterprise, in our society, and even in our religions."

Farooq Kathwari, CEO Ethan Allen

"Leader in its most important sense means being the agent of your own life,

influencing the things you care about most in the world to make it a richer life.

"

Stewart Friedman, T otal Leadership

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