Best leadership & employee Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.”

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Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.”

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Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”

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Author:J. Paul Getty

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

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Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.”

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Author:William Bligh

“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.”

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Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.”

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Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Lencioni

“There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune”

“No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.”

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