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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”

“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

“A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.”

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.”

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.”

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made.”

“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”