Quotes About Leadership

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

life was far more complicated than it had appeared to be in the Yard and that it was people who were in charge of it, not dogs.

Focus on innovating at value, not positioning against competitors

Blue ocean shift is a systematic process to move your organization from cutthroat markets with bloody competition—what we think of as red oceans full of sharks—to wide-open blue oceans, or new markets devoid of competition, in a way that brings your people along.

To tip the cognitive hurdle fast, tipping point leaders such as Bratton zoom in on the act of disproportionate influence: making people see and experience harsh reality firsthand.

Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it's about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

If you can move people by inspiring and building their confidence to own and drive your new strategy, they will be committed to seeing change through and overcoming the organizational constraints you confront.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

The 5000 Year Leap and The Making of America.

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. No others can do this work and Negro colleges must train men for it. The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

The transformation can only be accomplished by man, not by hardware (computers, gadgets, automation, new machinery). A company can not buy its way into quality.

People generally want to do the right thing, but in a large organization, they frequently don't really understand what is the right thing.

Divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.

Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products and services.

No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.

The wealth of a nation depends on its people, management, and government, more than on its natural resources.