Quotes About Legacy

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

I want to be famous in my home.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.