Best leadership & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.”

“Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.”

Thinking Ideas Leadership Decision Leader Quick Decisions

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.”

Important Ideas Leadership Leader Concepts

Book:Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.”

“The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.”

Needs Ideas Whole Faces Leadership Media Personality Sick Notion Bloody Balloons

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.”

Thinking Ideas Self Choices Language Leadership Ability Creativity Doubt Speech Behavior Communicate Appearance Self Confidence No Doubt Judged Associates Topics Our Choices

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders demonstrate a comfort with the chaos of exploding ideas, many of them seemingly unrelated to the stimulus that caused them.”

Doe Ideas Seems Leadership Brain Leader Fashion Comfort Chaos Tolerance Recognizing Ambiguity Stimulus Linear Exploding

Book:The Language of leadership

Source: The Language of leadership

“I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“We always have more ideas than we can fund.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.”

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Author:Andy Stanley

“A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

Ideas Ends Sides Leadership Leader Knowing Stronger Debate Arrogant Superficial Good Leader Uninformed

Author:Nelson Mandela

“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.”

People Thinking Inspirational Ideas Leadership Wise Independent

Author:Nelson Mandela

“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”

People Inspirational Feels Mind Heart Ideas Hope Leadership Example Involved Excitement Productive Engagement

Author:Rupert Murdoch

“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.”

Ifs Ideas Self Done Inspiration Leadership Wealth Leader Rich No Idea Authentic Self Being Authentic

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”

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Book:The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

Source: The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn

“You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”

“In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.”

Two Ideas Motivational Winning Leadership Inspiring Behinds Battle Fearless Heretic

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”

People Knows Ideas Feelings Problem Motivational Care Age Leadership Inspiring Do You Know Who Cares Iron Lady Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”

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Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.”

Source: John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do

“The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.”

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Author:George Roche III

“The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures”

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Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”

World Way Ideas Inspiration Today Leadership Powerful Leader Morning Storytelling Most Powerful Storyteller World Today Telling Stories

Author:Robert McKee

“The idea of molding men means a lot to me.”

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Book:Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

Source: Bear: The Hard Life and Good Times of Alabama's Coach Bryant

“I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.”

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Author:Bear Bryant

“Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. 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.”

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.”

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Author:Hyman Rickover

“The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.”

Ideas Shows Lying Values Leadership Simple Inspiring Willing Listening Roots Empowering Simple Things Effective Leadership

Author:John Baldoni

“... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.”

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