Quotes About Progress

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

Going forward seems like retreat.

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 real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

The world is starving for leaders who are not afraid to dismantle the sacred and precious beliefs, which hold us as prisoners of the past.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

Leadership is like exercise. Do it everyday, the results take time but you will see them. It's the little things.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Walking makes us take problems in our stride.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

The world is more peaceful and more free under my leadership.

Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.